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Just released in 2012! This book is a warning to voters and politicians that current poliarizations risks long-term harm to our nation. This book compares the same 5 traits of high-conflict divorces to today's politics. The High-Conflict Politician Score Card is included! The authors note that the kind of negative behavior we are seeing in politics increases conflict rather than reducing or resolving it. What's worse, it's like a virus, infecting others who are exposed to it, leading the rest of us to act it he same manner.
Authors Don Saposnek and Bill Eddy hope their book will help change the destructive direction in which our country seems to be headed. They want us to avoid the "nasty divorce" that would hurt our nation and strive instead to seek common ground and understanding. After all, we are the American Family.
Splitting America is for anyone who is disturbed by the current political situation and wants to do something about it! Read more in the extended description.
Take the High-Conflict Politician Scorecard test here!
Watch televised interview with co-author, Bill Eddy, here.
Listen to co-author, Don Saposnek in an interview here. |
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- Bill Eddy, L.C.S.W., J.D. is a family law attorney, therapist and mediator, with over thirty years’ experience working with children and families. He is the Senior Family Mediator at the National Conflict Resolution Center in San Diego, California. He is also the President of the High Conflict Institute, which provides speakers, trainers and consultants on the subject of managing high-conflict people in legal disputes, workplace disputes, healthcare and education.
- Donald T. Saposnek, Ph.D. is a clinical-child psychologist, child custody mediator, and family therapist in private practice for over 40 years, and is a national and international trainer of mediation and child development. For the past 35 years, he has been teaching on the psychology faculty at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and is Adjunct Professor at Pepperdine University School of Law’s Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution.
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Just released August 2012! This book is a warning to voters and politicians that current polarizations risks long-term harm to our nation. This book compares the same 5 traits of high-conflict divorces to today's politics. The High-Conflict Politician Score Card is included! The authors note that the kind of negative behavior we are seeing in politics increases conflict rather than reducing or resolving it. What's worse, it's like a virus, infecting others who are exposed to it, leading the rest of us to act it he same manner.
Authors Don Saposnek and Bill Eddy hope their book will help change the destructive direction in which our country seems to be headed. They want us to avoid the "nasty divorce" that would hurt our nation and strive instead to seek common ground and understanding. After all, we are the American Family.
Splitting America is for anyone who is disturbed by the current political situation and wants to do something about it! |
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Something nasty is happening in America. Have you noticed the trend? There’s more bullying, more incivility, more disrespect and even more relationship violence between us at home, at work, in our communities and in the news. And, it seems to be increasing rather than decreasing.
We have noticed a pattern to this behavior that is all too familiar: Personal Attacks, Crisis Emotions, All-or-Nothing Solutions, Narcissistic Behavior and Negative Advocates. We are well-acquainted with this pattern in high-conflict divorces from working with divorcing families over the past 30 years, and it’s not good. This behavior is called “high-conflict” because it increases the conflict, rather than reducing or resolving it. Worst of all, it’s contagious – it spreads when people are exposed to it, like a virus. |
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Recently, political leaders in both parties appear to be adopting and escalating high-conflict behavior, and perhaps, even leading it. Millionaires and billionaires are funding expensive ads as key elements in high-conflict election campaigns. And, the news media promote high-conflict behavior in every broadcast – to children as well as to adults – by relentlessly showing, and thereby teaching, the most dramatic bad behavior of the day.
We have seen this high-conflict behavior “split” too many families going through divorce, and we don’t want to see it destroy the American family. We want to avoid a Democrat-Republican high-conflict divorce.
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Book Specs
- SPLITTING AMERICA: How Politicians, Super PACs and the News Media Mirror High Conflict Divorce
Paperback: 154 pages
Publisher: HCI Press (2012)
Language: English
ISBN-13: 978-1936268528
Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
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