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The High-Conflict Co-Parenting Survival Guide: Reclaim Your Life One Week At A Time
Anyone who is tasked with with enforcing laws and codes has probably encountered high-conflict people and with increasing frequency in the recent past. In this 1-hour audio session, Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq., interviewed by Megan Hunter, MBA, explains the patterns of high-conflict people when confronted by law enforcement or code compliance officers and offers practical tips to handle their high-conflict behaviors using the C.A.R.S. method.
Bill Eddy is a licensed clinical social worker, licensed attorney with 18 years experience, a mediator, and President and co-founder of High Conflict Institute. He developed the "High-Conflict Personality" theory and teaches about high-conflict disputes to professionals and the general public. His theory is based on the premise that high-conflict disputes are driven by people with characteristics or traits of a personality disorder, such as Borderline Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder and Paranoid Personality Disorder. Understanding their conflict patterns makes them easily identifiable. Once you can identity a high-conflict person, it's imperative that you know how to deal with their fear-based logic and manage the conflict.
Bill Eddy is a licensed clinical social worker, licensed attorney with 18 years experience, a mediator, and President and co-founder of High Conflict Institute. He developed the "High-Conflict Personality" theory and teaches about high-conflict disputes to professionals and the general public. His theory is based on the premise that high-conflict disputes are driven by people with characteristics or traits of a personality disorder, such as Borderline Personality Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder and Paranoid Personality Disorder. Understanding their conflict patterns makes them easily identifiable. Once you can identity a high-conflict person, it's imperative that you know how to deal with their fear-based logic and manage the conflict.
- GenresParenting
174 pages, Spiral-bound
First published October 8, 2019
32 people want to read
About the author
Megan Hunter
34 books3 followersMegan Hunter , MBA, is an author, speaker, and expert on high-conflict disputes and complicated relationships. She is CEO of Unhooked Media, a U.S.-based media company focused on relationship and conflict revolution through print, digital and the spoken word. She is publisher at High Conflict Institute Press and its imprint Unhooked Books and co-founder of the High Conflict Institute. She is a frequent guest on Sirius XM Satellite's The Doctor Show (psychiatry) with Dr. Michael Aronoff.
Megan trains legal, mental health, business, leadership groups, universities and other professionals across the U.S., Canada, South Africa and Australia. She has strong policy and judicial training experience during her tenure at the Arizona Supreme Court and as a member of the Arizona Board of Psychologist Examiners. She currently serves as project manager of the "We Got This" brand of the Black Sheep Project on the Advisory Board of the Personality Disorder Awareness Network.
Megan trains legal, mental health, business, leadership groups, universities and other professionals across the U.S., Canada, South Africa and Australia. She has strong policy and judicial training experience during her tenure at the Arizona Supreme Court and as a member of the Arizona Board of Psychologist Examiners. She currently serves as project manager of the "We Got This" brand of the Black Sheep Project on the Advisory Board of the Personality Disorder Awareness Network.
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July 22, 2022
This workbook is meant to take you through 52-weeks of self-care. It’s primarily for those in a relationship with a high-conflict spouse. It’s not filled with a tone of 15-step-how-tos per se. It’s really about coming to grips with your situation with a high-conflict person (HCP), and surviving. But more than just surviving, it’s about regaining your power of self-direction. As the author’s note, this book “is a wake-up call that you need to start taking care of yourself. You will see how well or sick you are at the beginning and at the end on your weekly journey to becoming a healthier human and parent” (9).
There were several moments I found myself saying, “Yeah! What she just said! That’s how it feels and that’s what it’s like!” Other times the writers throw a good dose of reality in the reader’s way to make sure readers know the hard truth so as to make some rock-solid decisions. For example, “Your co-parent will never change. I can almost 100% guarantee that. But you can” (132). Short of regular sessions with a therapist, this workbook could well be a life-preserver for many who find themselves floundering in the rough seas of co-parenting with a HCP.
Lots of little editorial glitches in the book. And I’m not always a big fan of self-helpism, which this volume has plenty of. But I did find it a reasonable read that has a load of value. I read this work for personal reasons. One of them is as a Christian minister I need resources to recommend to parishioners or others who come to see me. If I am dealing with a person in a high-conflict relationship, this will be a manual I’ll recommend.
There were several moments I found myself saying, “Yeah! What she just said! That’s how it feels and that’s what it’s like!” Other times the writers throw a good dose of reality in the reader’s way to make sure readers know the hard truth so as to make some rock-solid decisions. For example, “Your co-parent will never change. I can almost 100% guarantee that. But you can” (132). Short of regular sessions with a therapist, this workbook could well be a life-preserver for many who find themselves floundering in the rough seas of co-parenting with a HCP.
Lots of little editorial glitches in the book. And I’m not always a big fan of self-helpism, which this volume has plenty of. But I did find it a reasonable read that has a load of value. I read this work for personal reasons. One of them is as a Christian minister I need resources to recommend to parishioners or others who come to see me. If I am dealing with a person in a high-conflict relationship, this will be a manual I’ll recommend.
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