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New Ways for Families
We developed this program to help potentially high-conflict families stay out of court, while learning and practicing conflict reducing skills, teaching these skills to their children, and making decisions. It is designed to save courts time and parents money and offers a significant shift in attitude toward high-conflict cases.

Featured Products
HCI Pattern Analysis - for Parenting Disputes In Divorce
Using a graphic timeline on an easy-to-read screen, the HCI Pattern Analysis is a powerful software service for organizing all of the information and documents in a custody or other parenting dispute with a high-conflict other parent. To date, every case using this method has reached a satisfactory settlement or prevailed in family court. Based on patterns described in Bill Eddy's book Splitting.
Splitting: Protecting Yourself While Divorcing Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder
The most knowledgeable book available about divorcing a potentially "high-conflict" partner, and the most honest and practical book about today's family court. Get the psychological and legal guidance you need, even before you mention divorce—or as soon as possible! Learn What To Do and What Not To Do!
BIFF: Quick Responses to High Conflict People, Their Personal Attacks, Hostile Email & Social Media Meltdowns
We live in a culture of Blame and Disrespect. Incivility is everywhere. This book tells you how to deal with personal attacks, hostile email, and any type of bad behavior. Don't react or defend—just give a BIFF Response. You'll be respected for it—and feel good too!
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Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq. - Consultations & TrainingWilliam A. "Bill" Eddy is an attorney, therapist and mediator and the President of the High Conflict Institute. He provides consultations and training about managing high-conflict personalities to professionals, including attorneys, judges, mediators, mental health professionals and human resource professionals. He has presented in over 25 of the US States, Canada, Australia, France and Sweden.
Mr. Eddy is the author of several books, including Its All Your Fault!: 12 Tips for Managing People Who Blame Others for Everything and High Conflict People in Legal Disputes. He is the developer of the “New Ways for Families” program in use in several family court systems, the C.A.R.S. Method for conflict resolution with high conflict individuals in the workplace or anywhere (explained in the book It’s All YOUR Fault!), and the co-developer of the new “HCI Pattern Analysis” software service for presenting high-conflict parenting behavior in divorce settlement and litigation.
He is on the part-time faculty at the Pepperdine University School of Law and on the part-time faculty of the National Judicial College.
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For The Workplace
It's All Your Fault! 12 Tips for Managing People Who Blame Others for Everything
Blamers are everywhere today! Learn about four "high-conflict" personalities and a four-step method for managing them—whether you're the "Target of Blame" or someone close to them. Excellent information and tools for the workplace, whether you're a manager or an employee.



