• RESOURCES

Dealing with Difficult People & Difficult Issues


  • Amy J. L. Baker Ph.D., Paul R Fine LCSW, Co-parenting with a Toxic Ex: What to Do When Your Ex-Spouse Tries to Turn the Kids Against You, Paperback – New Harbinger Publications May 1, 2014
  • Amy J.L. Baker Ph.D., J. Michael Bone Ph.D., et al., The High-Conflict Custody Battle: Protect Yourself and Your Kids from a Toxic Divorce, False Accusations, and Parental Alienation, New Harbinger Publications (Nov 1 2014)
  • Patterson, Kerry, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler, Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2002).
  • Scott, Susan, Fierce Conversations: Achieving Success at Work & in Life One Conversation at a Time (New York: Berkley Publishing Group, 2002).
  • Stone, Douglas, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen, Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most (New York: Viking Penguin, 1999).
  • Tannen, Deborah, You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation (New York: Ballantine Books, 1990). Marshall Rosenberg, Non-Violent Communication

Books Which May be of Interest to You


  • The Good Divorce – A Psychoanalyst’s Exploration of Separation, Divorce, and Childcare by Arthur Leonoff
  • Children Who Resist Postseparation Parental Contact – A Differential Approach for Legal and Mental Health Professionals by Barbara Jo Fidler, Nicholas Bala and Michael A. Saini
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