New Ways for Families Parent Workbook

by Bill Eddy

Overview

For divorcing parents who have been court-ordered or have decided to use New Ways for Families in the divorce process. This is a structured parenting skills method to reduce the impact of conflict on children in potentially high-conflict divorce cases. Research shows it helps decrease conflict, stress and abuse while improving outcomes for children, leading to safer, healthier families.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781936268054
Publisher:	High Conflict Institute Press
Publication date:	01/01/2009
Edition description:	Workbook
Pages:	95
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Bill Eddy is a lawyer, therapist, mediator and the President of High Conflict Institute. He developed the "High Conflict Personality" theory (HCP Theory) and has become an international expert on managing disputes involving high-conflict personalities and personality disorders. He provides training on this subject to lawyers, judges, mediators, managers, human resource professionals, businesspersons, healthcare administrators, college administrators, homeowners’ association managers, ombudspersons, law enforcement, therapists and others. He has been a speaker and trainer in over 25 states, several provinces in Canada, Australia, France and Sweden.

As an attorney, Bill is a Certified Family Law Specialist in California and the Senior Family Mediator at the National Conflict Resolution Center in San Diego. Prior to becoming an attorney in 1992, he was a Licensed Clinical Social worker with twelve years’ experience providing therapy to children, adults, couples and families in psychiatric hospitals and outpatient clinics. He has taught Negotiation and Mediation at the University of San Diego School of Law for six years and he is on the part-time faculty of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at the Pepperdine University School of Law and the National Judicial College.

Table of Contents

Introduction

INDIVIDUAL PARENT COUNSELING
Session One : setting your goals
Session Two : flexible thinking
Session Three : calming upset emotions
Session Four : feelings are contagious
Session Five : feelings aren’t decisions
Session Six : learning from mom, learning from dad

PARENT-CHILD COUNSELING
Introduction : Parent-Child Counseling
Session One : teaching your child skills for resiliency
Session Two : hearing your child’s concerns
Session Three : discussing new ways of raising your child

APPENDICES
Appendix A : Responding to Hostile Mail (B.I.F.F.)
Appendix B : Is Your Child Alienated
Appendix C : Making Proposals
Appendix D : The NEW WAYS Parent-Child Talk
Appendix E : Don’t Use Force

Verification of Completion : Individual Parent Counseling
Verification of Complexion : Parent-Child Counseling