High-Conflict
THIS IS THE SECOND EDITION. There is a new third edition sold elsewhere. We are clearing inventory.
Expanded to include EMDR Therapy with infants to adolescents, this updated and revised manual - the only resource of its kind - accompanies the new second edition of the widely praised foundational text, EMDR and the Art of Psychotherapy with Children. The manual distills simple and practical ways to employ EMDR Therapy scripted protocols and forms - downloadable for immediate use - to effectively utilize the entire EMDR therapy eight-phased treatment with infants, toddlers, young children, preteens, and teens from a developmental perspective. It is organized in accordance with the book and provides step-by-step directions, session protocols, scripts, and forms for each phase of the protocol, along with instructions for integrating techniques and tools from play, art, sand tray, and other helpful therapies.
The manual mirrors revisions to the text including changes to the phases of EMDR Therapy and target identification, and the integration of developmental theory into EMDR Therapy for use with infants to adolescents. Additional revisions include coverage of new specialties and updated protocols, the presentation of breakthrough narrative concepts, new resources and scripts, guidance for the use of EMDR Therapy with specialty populations, and new case studies of infants, toddlers, pre-teens and adolescents. The manual will greatly assist therapists in their goal of providing best practices for children in need of expert psychotherapy. New to the Second Edition: Includes updated scripted protocols and forms that are downloadable for immediate use Integrates developmental theory into the eight phases of EMDR Therapy for use with infants, toddlers, preschoolers, children, preteens, and adolescents Highlights that describe additional specialties and protocols Includes breakthrough narrative therapeutic concepts to use with young children Provides new resourcing and other scripts for teaching children affect management Integrates play therapy and other expressive techniques for use with any age client Guides therapists in using EMDR Therapy with specialty populations Presents case studies of EMDR Therapy use with infants, toddler, preteens and adolescents Revises phases of EMDR Therapy for history taking, case conceptualization, and treatment planning Offers updates for cognitive interweaves and other tools for blocked processing and client resistance to EMDR Therapy .
Key Features: Comprises the only manual available to help therapists to use EMDR Therapy with children ranging from infancy to adolescence Organized in accordance with the accompanying text Includes step-by-step directions, session protocols, scripts, and forms for each phase of the protocol Provides instructions for integrating techniques and tools from play, art, sand tray, and other helpful therapies Facilitates the skills - from basic to advanced - needed for best practices
About the Author
Robbie Adler-Tapia, PhD, is a licensed psychologist who has worked with children and families for over 35 years. Her work as a psychologist, educator, consultant, researcher, and writer has been at the cutting edge of trauma treatment in young children. She has extensive experience in child welfare, the forensic arena, and working with first responders and public safety officials. Dr. Adler-Tapia presents internationally on treating trauma in children, including using EMDR therapy for attachment and dissociation. She has taught graduate- level coursework and supervised interns. Her volunteer work includes promoting EMDR therapy for the most vulnerable children, including training therapists worldwide who work in the child welfare system and those working with children orphaned by AIDS; she also assists Post Incident Stress and Trauma in Law Enforcement (PISTLE), a nonprofit for those working in law enforcement.
Setting Limits AND Imposing Consequences in 2 ½ Steps
Authors: Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq. and Ekaterina Ricci, MDR, MLS
Publication date: December 9, 2025
Series: Conflict Communication Book 6
Description
In a world filled with conflict, manipulation, and boundary-pushing behavior, SLIC Solutions for Conflict offers a calm and practical guide for addressing high-conflict behavior.
Drawing on decades of experience with high-conflict personalities, Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq., and Ekaterina Ricci, MDR, MLS, present the 2½-step SLIC Solutions™ method: Setting Limits and Imposing Consequences. This approach helps you respond with confidence—replacing passive tolerance or reactive aggression with firm, respectful boundaries.
Whether you’re dealing with narcissists, workplace bullies, difficult relatives, or escalating community tensions, SLIC Solutions equips you with the tools to be assertive without being aggressive, to protect your peace, and to strengthen the social fabric around you. With calm authority, it empowers readers to become more confident limit-setters—helping make families, organizations, and communities safer and more respectful places for all.
You’ll learn five key questions to help ensure your consequences are realistic and effective. With real-world examples from families, workplaces, courtrooms, and communities, this book provides actionable strategies to regain control in even the most challenging situations.
SLIC Solutions™ is the fourth core method in the internationally respected CARS Method® of conflict resolution—alongside Connecting (EAR Statements™), Analyzing options, and Responding (BIFF Response®). With clarity and compassion, this book shows how to communicate boundaries, follow through, and preserve relationships—without falling into manipulation traps.
SLIC Solutions is often the most important skill. High conflict people tend to be the people who can’t stop themselves from offensive or harmful behavior, so others need to stop them. This technique can be used with anyone in your life and can be learned at almost any age.
Assert without aggression. Protect your peace. Strengthen your community.
Changing the Way We Come to Agreement
Second Edition
Michele Huff, JD
A Breakthrough Approach with Tips and Tools and the New Ways for Mediation™ Method
Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
Michael Lomax, JD
The Definitive Guide for Divorced or Separated Parents
By attorneys and parenting coordinators, Annette T. Burns, JD and Nicole Siqueiros-Stoutner, JD
Publication Date: December 2024
Lynne Kenney, PsyD
Available in paperback or as a PDF download.
The New Ways for Work® Workbook is for anyone who is going through the New Ways for Work coaching method with a coach who has been trained and licensed in the New Ways for Work® coaching method by the High Conflict Institute.
Note: this is the PDF downloadable and/or fillable version.
Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
The New Ways for Work® Coaching Manual is for coaches and other professionals who provide the New Ways for Work® coaching method and have been trained and licensed by the High Conflict Institute.
Note: this is the PDF downloadable version.
Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
The New Ways for Families® Parent Collaborative Divorce Workbook is for parents who are using the New Ways for Families method in their collaborative process.
Note: this is the PDF downloadable version.
Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
The New Ways for Families® Decision Skills Class Workbook is for parents who will take a divorce education class, either court-mandated or otherwise. This workbook is intended to be used in a class for with someone who has been trained in the New Ways for Families Decision Skills class method by the High Conflict Institute.
Note: this is the PDF downloadable (fillable) version.
Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
The New Ways for Families® Pre-Mediation Coaching Manual is for coaches trained by the High Conflict Institute in the New Ways for Families Pre-Mediation model.
Note: this is the PDF downloadable version.
Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
The New Ways for Families® Parent Workbook is for parents who are using the New Ways for Families Counseling program.
Note: this is the PDF downloadable version.
Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
The New Ways for Families® Pre-Mediation Coaching Workbook is for parents or anyone needing pre-mediation coaching. It is meant to be used with a coach who is trained by the High Conflict Institute in the New Ways for Families Pre-Mediation model.
Note: this is the PDF downloadable (fillable) version.
Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
The New Ways for Families® Decision Skills Instructor Manual is for the training provided by the High Conflict Institute for the New Ways for Families Decision Skills Class training.
Note: this is the PDF downloadable version.
Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
The New Ways for Families® Online Coaching Manual is for the training provided by the High Conflict Institute for the New Ways for Families Coaches Training.
Note: this is the PDF downloadable version.
Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
Quick Responses to High-Conflict People, Their Personal Attacks, Hostile Email and Social Media Meltdowns
Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
Your Guide to Difficult CoParent Texts, Emails and Social Media Posts
Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq., Annette T. Burns, JD, and Kevin Chafin, LPC
Your Guide to Difficult Workplace Communication
Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
Megan Hunter, MBA
Your Guide to Respectful Written Communication with Clients, Opposing Counsel and Others
Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
Rehana Jamal, JD, LL.M.
How Statements Showing Empathy, Attention, and Respect Can Quickly Defuse a Conflict
Bill Eddy, LCSW, JD
The Intersection of Personality Theory and the Darkest Minds of Our Time
Todd Grande, PhD
YouTube Channel, Dr. Todd Grande
Over 1 MILLION Subscribers
A secret binds them together. The truth will unravel them.
Featuring troubled therapist Jenny Ocean, her homicidal client Rio Winston, and Jenny’s lover, detective Sam Longford, Harm Reduction journeys into the depravity of serial killing, the pain of ambivalence, the pitfalls of violating boundaries, and the process of gaining and losing insight.
Todd Grande, PhD
YouTube Channel (Dr. Todd Grande)
Over 1 MILLION Subscribers
A Practical Guide to the Power and Freedom of Emotional Honesty
Andrew Seubert, LMHC, NCC
Revised and Updated Second Edition
Raising Resilient Children While Avoiding High-Conflict Divorce
Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
50 Things to Say, Think, and Do with Anxious, Angry, and Over-the-Top Kids
Lynne Kenney, PsyD
Wendy Young, LMSW, BCD
Reclaim Your Life One Week at a Time
Megan Hunter, MBA
Andrea LaRochelle, RFM
Borderline Personality Disorder
This is a leftover from the bookstores we set up at conferences. This book is not published y Unhooked Books. It’s being offered at a deeply discounted price as we are clearing our inventory.
The latest groundbreaking, interdisciplinary work from one of our most eloquent and significant writers about emotion and the brain.
An exploration into the adaptive functions of the emotional right brain, which describes not only affect and affect regulation within minds and brains, but also the communication and interactive regulation of affects between minds and brains.
This book offers evidence that emotional interactions reflect right-brain-to-right-brain affective communication. Essential reading for those trying to understand one-person psychology as well as two-person psychology relationships, whether clinical or otherwise. 12 black and white illustrations.
About the Author
Dr. Allan Schore is author of six seminal volumes as well as numerous articles and chapters. He is on the clinical faculty at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine.
His contributions appear in multiple disciplines, including neuroscience, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, attachment theory, trauma studies, behavioral biology, pediatrics, and clinical psychology and social work. His groundbreaking integration of neuroscience with attachment theory has led to his description as “the American Bowlby,” with emotional development as “the world’s leading authority on how our right hemisphere regulates emotion and processes our sense of self,” and with psychoanalysis as “the world’s leading expert in neuropsychoanalysis.” The American Psychoanalytic Association has described Dr. Schore as “a monumental figure in psychoanalytic and neuropsychoanalytic studies.”
He has founded the Right Brain Psychotherapy Institute which offers online master class videos with Dr. Schore to foster a deeper understanding of the fundamental psychobiological change mechanisms of all forms of individual, psychodynamic, couples, body-oriented, and group psychotherapy.
THIS IS THE SECOND EDITION. There is a new third edition sold elsewhere. We are clearing inventory.
Expanded to include EMDR Therapy with infants to adolescents, this updated and revised manual - the only resource of its kind - accompanies the new second edition of the widely praised foundational text, EMDR and the Art of Psychotherapy with Children. The manual distills simple and practical ways to employ EMDR Therapy scripted protocols and forms - downloadable for immediate use - to effectively utilize the entire EMDR therapy eight-phased treatment with infants, toddlers, young children, preteens, and teens from a developmental perspective. It is organized in accordance with the book and provides step-by-step directions, session protocols, scripts, and forms for each phase of the protocol, along with instructions for integrating techniques and tools from play, art, sand tray, and other helpful therapies.
The manual mirrors revisions to the text including changes to the phases of EMDR Therapy and target identification, and the integration of developmental theory into EMDR Therapy for use with infants to adolescents. Additional revisions include coverage of new specialties and updated protocols, the presentation of breakthrough narrative concepts, new resources and scripts, guidance for the use of EMDR Therapy with specialty populations, and new case studies of infants, toddlers, pre-teens and adolescents. The manual will greatly assist therapists in their goal of providing best practices for children in need of expert psychotherapy. New to the Second Edition: Includes updated scripted protocols and forms that are downloadable for immediate use Integrates developmental theory into the eight phases of EMDR Therapy for use with infants, toddlers, preschoolers, children, preteens, and adolescents Highlights that describe additional specialties and protocols Includes breakthrough narrative therapeutic concepts to use with young children Provides new resourcing and other scripts for teaching children affect management Integrates play therapy and other expressive techniques for use with any age client Guides therapists in using EMDR Therapy with specialty populations Presents case studies of EMDR Therapy use with infants, toddler, preteens and adolescents Revises phases of EMDR Therapy for history taking, case conceptualization, and treatment planning Offers updates for cognitive interweaves and other tools for blocked processing and client resistance to EMDR Therapy .
Key Features: Comprises the only manual available to help therapists to use EMDR Therapy with children ranging from infancy to adolescence Organized in accordance with the accompanying text Includes step-by-step directions, session protocols, scripts, and forms for each phase of the protocol Provides instructions for integrating techniques and tools from play, art, sand tray, and other helpful therapies Facilitates the skills - from basic to advanced - needed for best practices
About the Author
Robbie Adler-Tapia, PhD, is a licensed psychologist who has worked with children and families for over 35 years. Her work as a psychologist, educator, consultant, researcher, and writer has been at the cutting edge of trauma treatment in young children. She has extensive experience in child welfare, the forensic arena, and working with first responders and public safety officials. Dr. Adler-Tapia presents internationally on treating trauma in children, including using EMDR therapy for attachment and dissociation. She has taught graduate- level coursework and supervised interns. Her volunteer work includes promoting EMDR therapy for the most vulnerable children, including training therapists worldwide who work in the child welfare system and those working with children orphaned by AIDS; she also assists Post Incident Stress and Trauma in Law Enforcement (PISTLE), a nonprofit for those working in law enforcement.
Setting Limits AND Imposing Consequences in 2 ½ Steps
Authors: Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq. and Ekaterina Ricci, MDR, MLS
Publication date: December 9, 2025
Series: Conflict Communication Book 6
Description
In a world filled with conflict, manipulation, and boundary-pushing behavior, SLIC Solutions for Conflict offers a calm and practical guide for addressing high-conflict behavior.
Drawing on decades of experience with high-conflict personalities, Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq., and Ekaterina Ricci, MDR, MLS, present the 2½-step SLIC Solutions™ method: Setting Limits and Imposing Consequences. This approach helps you respond with confidence—replacing passive tolerance or reactive aggression with firm, respectful boundaries.
Whether you’re dealing with narcissists, workplace bullies, difficult relatives, or escalating community tensions, SLIC Solutions equips you with the tools to be assertive without being aggressive, to protect your peace, and to strengthen the social fabric around you. With calm authority, it empowers readers to become more confident limit-setters—helping make families, organizations, and communities safer and more respectful places for all.
You’ll learn five key questions to help ensure your consequences are realistic and effective. With real-world examples from families, workplaces, courtrooms, and communities, this book provides actionable strategies to regain control in even the most challenging situations.
SLIC Solutions™ is the fourth core method in the internationally respected CARS Method® of conflict resolution—alongside Connecting (EAR Statements™), Analyzing options, and Responding (BIFF Response®). With clarity and compassion, this book shows how to communicate boundaries, follow through, and preserve relationships—without falling into manipulation traps.
SLIC Solutions is often the most important skill. High conflict people tend to be the people who can’t stop themselves from offensive or harmful behavior, so others need to stop them. This technique can be used with anyone in your life and can be learned at almost any age.
Assert without aggression. Protect your peace. Strengthen your community.
Changing the Way We Come to Agreement
Second Edition
Michele Huff, JD
A Breakthrough Approach with Tips and Tools and the New Ways for Mediation™ Method
Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
Michael Lomax, JD
The Definitive Guide for Divorced or Separated Parents
By attorneys and parenting coordinators, Annette T. Burns, JD and Nicole Siqueiros-Stoutner, JD
Publication Date: December 2024
Lynne Kenney, PsyD
Available in paperback or as a PDF download.
The New Ways for Work® Workbook is for anyone who is going through the New Ways for Work coaching method with a coach who has been trained and licensed in the New Ways for Work® coaching method by the High Conflict Institute.
Note: this is the PDF downloadable and/or fillable version.
Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
The New Ways for Work® Coaching Manual is for coaches and other professionals who provide the New Ways for Work® coaching method and have been trained and licensed by the High Conflict Institute.
Note: this is the PDF downloadable version.
Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
The New Ways for Families® Parent Collaborative Divorce Workbook is for parents who are using the New Ways for Families method in their collaborative process.
Note: this is the PDF downloadable version.
Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
The New Ways for Families® Decision Skills Class Workbook is for parents who will take a divorce education class, either court-mandated or otherwise. This workbook is intended to be used in a class for with someone who has been trained in the New Ways for Families Decision Skills class method by the High Conflict Institute.
Note: this is the PDF downloadable (fillable) version.
Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
The New Ways for Families® Pre-Mediation Coaching Manual is for coaches trained by the High Conflict Institute in the New Ways for Families Pre-Mediation model.
Note: this is the PDF downloadable version.
Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
The New Ways for Families® Parent Workbook is for parents who are using the New Ways for Families Counseling program.
Note: this is the PDF downloadable version.
Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
The New Ways for Families® Pre-Mediation Coaching Workbook is for parents or anyone needing pre-mediation coaching. It is meant to be used with a coach who is trained by the High Conflict Institute in the New Ways for Families Pre-Mediation model.
Note: this is the PDF downloadable (fillable) version.
Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
The New Ways for Families® Decision Skills Instructor Manual is for the training provided by the High Conflict Institute for the New Ways for Families Decision Skills Class training.
Note: this is the PDF downloadable version.
Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
The New Ways for Families® Online Coaching Manual is for the training provided by the High Conflict Institute for the New Ways for Families Coaches Training.
Note: this is the PDF downloadable version.
Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
Quick Responses to High-Conflict People, Their Personal Attacks, Hostile Email and Social Media Meltdowns
Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
Your Guide to Difficult CoParent Texts, Emails and Social Media Posts
Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq., Annette T. Burns, JD, and Kevin Chafin, LPC
Your Guide to Difficult Workplace Communication
Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
Megan Hunter, MBA
Your Guide to Respectful Written Communication with Clients, Opposing Counsel and Others
Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
Rehana Jamal, JD, LL.M.
How Statements Showing Empathy, Attention, and Respect Can Quickly Defuse a Conflict
Bill Eddy, LCSW, JD
The Intersection of Personality Theory and the Darkest Minds of Our Time
Todd Grande, PhD
YouTube Channel, Dr. Todd Grande
Over 1 MILLION Subscribers
A secret binds them together. The truth will unravel them.
Featuring troubled therapist Jenny Ocean, her homicidal client Rio Winston, and Jenny’s lover, detective Sam Longford, Harm Reduction journeys into the depravity of serial killing, the pain of ambivalence, the pitfalls of violating boundaries, and the process of gaining and losing insight.
Todd Grande, PhD
YouTube Channel (Dr. Todd Grande)
Over 1 MILLION Subscribers
A Practical Guide to the Power and Freedom of Emotional Honesty
Andrew Seubert, LMHC, NCC
Revised and Updated Second Edition
Raising Resilient Children While Avoiding High-Conflict Divorce
Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
50 Things to Say, Think, and Do with Anxious, Angry, and Over-the-Top Kids
Lynne Kenney, PsyD
Wendy Young, LMSW, BCD
Reclaim Your Life One Week at a Time
Megan Hunter, MBA
Andrea LaRochelle, RFM
This is a leftover from the bookstores we set up at conferences. This book is not published y Unhooked Books. It’s being offered at a deeply discounted price as we are clearing our inventory.
The latest groundbreaking, interdisciplinary work from one of our most eloquent and significant writers about emotion and the brain.
An exploration into the adaptive functions of the emotional right brain, which describes not only affect and affect regulation within minds and brains, but also the communication and interactive regulation of affects between minds and brains.
This book offers evidence that emotional interactions reflect right-brain-to-right-brain affective communication. Essential reading for those trying to understand one-person psychology as well as two-person psychology relationships, whether clinical or otherwise. 12 black and white illustrations.
About the Author
Dr. Allan Schore is author of six seminal volumes as well as numerous articles and chapters. He is on the clinical faculty at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine.
His contributions appear in multiple disciplines, including neuroscience, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, attachment theory, trauma studies, behavioral biology, pediatrics, and clinical psychology and social work. His groundbreaking integration of neuroscience with attachment theory has led to his description as “the American Bowlby,” with emotional development as “the world’s leading authority on how our right hemisphere regulates emotion and processes our sense of self,” and with psychoanalysis as “the world’s leading expert in neuropsychoanalysis.” The American Psychoanalytic Association has described Dr. Schore as “a monumental figure in psychoanalytic and neuropsychoanalytic studies.”
He has founded the Right Brain Psychotherapy Institute which offers online master class videos with Dr. Schore to foster a deeper understanding of the fundamental psychobiological change mechanisms of all forms of individual, psychodynamic, couples, body-oriented, and group psychotherapy.