4 Mistakes to Avoid When Dealing with Difficult People
© 2017 Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
Difficult people – people with high conflict tendencies - have a pattern of negative behavior with four primary characteristics: All-or-nothing thinking; unmanaged emotions; extreme behavior or threats; and a preoccupation with blaming others. Therefore, they tend to es...
Quickly Identifying People with High Conflict Characteristics (Before you marry them, hire them or elect them!)
© 2018 Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
People with High Conflict tendencies or characteristics are popping up everywhere these days. From high conflict divorce, to sexual harassment in the workplace, to leaders of countries threatening nuclear war! In my newest book, 5 Types of People Who Can Ruin Your Life,...
Anybody You Know? 40 Predictable Characteristics of People with High Conflict Characteristics
©2018 Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
For the past twenty years I have been studying and teaching about 'people with high-conflict characteristics and how to manage them in legal disputes, workplace disputes, neighbor disputes and other situations. People with high-conflict characteristics have a narrow pers...
How to Spot People with High Conflict Tendencies (before it's too late to avoid them)
© 2018 Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
People with high conflict tendencies will generally display high conflict behaviour. This means they have an ongoing pattern of all-or-nothing thinking, unmanaged emotions, extreme behavior or threats, and a preoccupation with blaming others. They have a Target of Blame...
Who Are People with High Conflict Tendencies?
© 2019 Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
People with High Conflict Tendencies have a pattern of high-conflict behavior that increases conflict rather than reducing or resolving it. This pattern usually happens over and over again in many different situations with many different people. The issue that seems
...Can People with High-Conflict Characteristics / Tendencies Change?
Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq. ©2019
This is an increasingly important question in many areas of modern life, including in love relationships, in the workplace and in legal disputes. Major decisions are often made by assuming that someone will or won’t change their negative behaviors. Yet there are many fac...
A Respectful Meeting Policy
© 2017 by Bill Eddy and L. Georgi DiStefano
As people with high conflict tendencies appear to be increasing in society and the workplace, we are hearing more reports of disrespectful behavior during business meetings these days. Sad to say that this even is a topic which needs to be addressed. But ...
Bullies At Work
© 2016 Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
Workplace bullying is a growing international problem. It is more than a one-time incident. It is a pattern of behavior between a bully and another worker which can demoralize, isolate and trigger illness in the target of the bully. What is bullying? Who does it? Is it ...
Spotting Dangerous Clients in 3 Steps
©2018 Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.Â
Family law professionals were shaken to the core by last month’s murders of 6 people by an angry ex-husband in Arizona.
The victims included two paralegals who worked for the wife’s attorney, a forensic psychiatrist who had testified in the case, a psychologist who ren...
