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Managing Your Life with a High-Conflict Co-Parent
How to get off the emotional roller coaster and understand triggers and resulting response patterns so you can reclaim your life. Megan Hunter and Andrea LaRochelle discuss The High-Conflict Co-Parenting Survival Guide
Can High-Conflict People Change?
Can High-Conflict People Change? This is an increasingly important question in many areas of modern life. One test is to see whether they can learn new ways of dealing with their behavior in a short-term structure.
BIFF: 4 Ways to Respond to Hostile Comments Get respect with responses that are Brief, Informative, Friendly, and Firm.
Hostile comments can show up anywhere. Should you ignore them? React in the same hostile tone? Or is there a better way? A BIFF Response® is a way to respond that usually puts a stop to the hostilities, while leaving you feeling good about yourself.
How to Spot a Narcissist in 3 Steps
Narcissists can be very difficult to be around, so be aware of what you’re facing. Whether you’re dating, making friends, looking for a job, hiring employees, or joining a club or organization, it can be helpful to know some of the warning signs for people with narcissistic personality disorder or significant traits.
Are You the Target of Blame for a Narcissist?
Is someone verbally attacking you at work, at home or in your community? Telling you that you’re a loser, saying "It's all your fault," publicly humiliating you, spreading false rumors about you or claiming credit for your hard work? Such people are often narcissists who are also high-conflict people (HCPs).
Why Is Being the Target of Blame of a High-Conflict Personality so Stressful?
Whether you're in a dispute with your brother, classmate, work colleague, spouse or even someone you don't know, conflict is stressful. We talk about healthy and unhealthy conflict, and yes, some conflict is healthy, but conflict is always a distraction from work, life, family and other important things we all have to do.
Game Theory and Divorce: Choices are Rational
If You Change the Rules (and the Outcomes), You Can Change the Game: This is the Lesson Learned in Waldron and Koritzinsky’s Game Theory and the Transformation of Family Law.
5 Reasons Why Kids Bite and How to Make It Stop
While it’s shocking and probably embarrassing when your child bites, it’s not unusual behavior for young kids. You help the child by stating how he might feel, and providing him with the solutions that he cannot find on his own. Awareness provides the opportunity to make a different choice next time.