High Conflict Institute

New Ways for Families® - Educating parents to reduce conflict and to co-parent better

High conflict divorce and separation cases are challenging at best. They are:

costly for parents
time and resource-consuming for the courts
frustrating for everyone
very hard on kids

New Ways for Families® is a program for high conflict family law cases that you can utilize in your court, practice, or agency.

It is designed to save courts time, to save parents money, and to protect children as their families re-organize in new ways. It is a positive option for family law professionals who are ready for helping families in a new way that gives parents a chance to change before big decisions are made.

Developed by Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq., New Ways for Families® is a structured parenting skills method that focuses on teaching parents 4 Big Skills™ to:

help them make BIG decisions
reduce conflict
contain conflict
reduce or ultimately avoid alienation

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Understanding BPD In Family Law Cases

family Sep 08, 2018

The diagnostic manual of mental disorders (DSM-5) tells us that up to 5.9% of adults in the United States has borderline personality disorder (BPD).[1] When someone with this disorder is involved in a family law case, especially involving decisions about child custody and access, there is often a great deal of emotion, frequent professional conflict and numerous decision-making procedures that each barely resolve the conflicts (negotiation, mediation, court hearings, evaluations, counseling, etc.). It helps to understand BPD, in order to manage these cases better.

What Is BPD?

Borderline personality disorder is a mental health disorder with many of these types of symptoms: Fear of abandonment, unstable relationships, unstable self-image, impulsiveness, self-harming, wide mood swings, feeling empty, sudden and intense anger, and paranoid thoughts. However, personality disorders (there are ten in the manual) are typically not obvious at first until so