Billy Eddy – today on Families Divided TV

2 April 2025, forwarded by Lena Hellblom Sjögren

Tonight at 8 PM EDT on Families Divided TV Bill Eddy Speaks About ”Separating Alienation from Estrangement: Two Opposite Forms of Abuse”Tonight at 8 PM EDT on our Families Divided TV YouTube channel, Bill Eddy Speaks About ”Separating Alienation from Estrangement: Two Opposite Forms of Abuse”. This will air exclusively on our Families Divided TV YouTube Channel.Watch on YouTube”Separating Alienation from Estrangement: Two Opposite Forms of Abuse”When a child resists or refuses contact with a parent, their families and professionals often fight over the cause for months or years, during which the resistance gets worse. Is it estrangement in which the child resists an abusive parent (physically, emotionally, etc.)? Or is it alienation in which the child is influenced by the alienating behaviors of a favored parent? Now that there is more knowledge about alienation, some reasonable non-alienating parents are getting wrongly accused of alienation when the reality is that the other parent is, in fact, intimidating their child. This presentation will address ways of identifying the difference as early as possible, communicating this to professionals, and the differences in how to treat these two opposite forms of abuse. Bill Eddy is co-founder and chief innovation officer of High Conflict Institute. He pioneered the High Conflict Personality Theory (HCP) and is the world’s leading expert on methods for managing disputes involving people with high conflict personalities.Bill has worked as the senior family mediator at the National Conflict Resolution Center, a certified family law specialist representing clients in family court, and a licensed clinical social worker therapist. In 2021, he received the Lifetime Achievement award from the Academy of Professional Mediators.He serves on the faculty of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at the Pepperdine University School of Law in California and is a conjoint associate professor with the University of Newcastle Law School in Australia. He has delivered talks and trainings in more than 30 U.S. states and thirteen countries and is the author or co-author of 20 books. His popular blog on the Psychology Today website has more than 5 million views. He trains lawyers, judges, and mediators, and regularly consults on issues of alienation, family violence, and false allegations in family court cases.