Category Archives: domestic violence

I just gave an all-day seminar to approximately 300 family law social workers in Sweden who do divorce mediations and evaluations. Sweden does not have weapons screening at court (because they can’t have weapons in the cities) and only about …

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I was in Vancouver, British Columbia, recently giving an all-day seminar on Handling High Conflict Personalities to nearly 100 family lawyers. A sharp group of people who really want to help their clients – from dealing with domestic violence to …

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Once again we have a famous couple starting to fight over raising their child. (See last week’s blog about Bristol and Levi.) Unfortunately, the idea of solving the conflict by cutting out one parent is again being discussed – a …

Posted in *New Ways for Families, alienation, child abuse, custody dispute, domestic violence, family court, family lawyer, Halle Berry, high-conflict parent | Leave a comment

What do dictators, spousal abusers and workplace bullies have in common? They all seem to be people with “High-Conflict” Personalities. If so, that means that they have several predictable characteristics. One is that they can’t stop themselves. We are seeing …

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“Who’s to blame for this sorry situation?” asks the newspaper headline, which then gives two choices of individuals in the story. “Who do you blame for the recent events?” asks the internet website, and gives you a choice of four …

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Now we have another workplace shooting incident to analyze. This one apparently by a female faculty member at the University of Alabama. The early news reports indicate that she was denied tenure and wasn’t as good as she thought. These …

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I don’t know if you saw an Associated Press article in your newspaper last week (10/7/08) about a Los Angeles area married man who killed himself, his wife, his three children and his mother-in-law. He was unemployed, previously worked in …

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