Conflict Management Books - Page 12

Why Can't We Get Along?: Healing Adult Sibling Relationships

Peter Goldenthal

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Praise for Peter Goldenthal s previous books:

"[Dr. Goldenthal s] techniques...are presented with insight and clarity. This is a unique and valuable book." --William B. Carey, M.D., Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

"Peter Goldenthal gives us new insights.... This is a must-read book." --Myrna Shure, Ph.D., author of Raising a Thinking Child

Hasn t it gone on long enough the rivalry, the jealousy, the pent-up anger, and the grudges rooted in the past? In this book, renowned author and family psychologist Peter Goldenthal offers proven prescriptions for brothers and sisters who want to break through old, destructive patterns and create a richer, more loving, and more rewarding relationship with their adult siblings.

Using dramatic case histories drawn from his own clinical practice, Dr. Goldenthal helps you understand why adult siblings fight. Warmly and insightfully, he presents practical techniques to:
* Communicate with and listen to your sibling
* Free yourself from past resentments
* Cope with your sibling s selfish or inconsiderate behavior
* Support and comfort a sibling who suffers from mood problems
* Manage a sibling s difficult personality
* Help your children avoid sibling problems
Don t let old hurts and destructive behavior patterns overshadow the love you feel for your sibling. Read Why Can t We Get Along? and find the key to establishing warm and loving sibling relationships that will last a lifetime.

Genderspeak: Men, Women, and the Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense

Suzette Haden Elgin

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Communications guru Suzette Haden Elgin bridges the gender gap. In this groundbreaking book, the internationally acclaimed author of The Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense helps you anticipate and avoid the frustrating conversational knots in which men and women all too often find themselves entangled. Picking up where other authors leave off, Suzette Haden Elgin arms you with her proven techniques for dealing effectively with verbal confrontation in your personal and professional lives. She zeroes in on how to:
* Identify the differences between women's and men's perceptions of the world and avoid the dangerous semantic traps they create
* Distinguish between innocent and willful misunderstandings--and what to do about them
* Read body language and use it as a powerful communications tool
* Recognize and put an end to the treacherous verbal games people play
Strikingly true-to-life dialogues and scenarios illustrate each point, covering nearly every argument and misunderstanding you've ever had with somebody of the opposite sex. Empowered with Elgin's proven techniques for dealing with these situations, you'll be prepared to take full control of any verbal confrontation with your co-workers, friends, and family.

Resolving Conflict in Marriage

Darrell Hines

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Great reference guide, again and again 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 5 people found this review helpful.

We received this book from the Reverend who married us and have referred to it several times since our wedding day. It is practical, kind and a great resource when you can't seem to pinpoint "what's wrong." It is more about understanding your spouse and nurturing a healthy relationship, than trying to find a "solution" to everything. It is well-organized so you can skip around the topics, but it is also quite beautifully written. Makes a *great* wedding gift, too. :-)

Powerful, On Point, & Clear -- An ease read!!! 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is the most powerful marital book I have read. It is ease to read and hard to put down. All Christian premarital courses should be developed from the guise of this book. Read it with an open mind and open heart and watch the Spirit convict you!! I own it..bought it as a gift for a friend who is going through marital issues..and now encourage any of my friends considering marriage to read it!!!

The One Minute Apology: A Powerful Way to Make Things Better

Ken Blanchard, Margret Mcbride

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With his phenomenal bestsellers The One Minute Manager and Raving Fans, Ken Blanchard changed the way we approach management, leadership, and customer service. Now Blanchard, along with coauthor Margret McBride, presents a concept that, when implemented properly, is one of the most powerful actions for improving company and employee morale. This is also a book that can extend well beyond the business realm and can repair relationships that we thought were broken forever.

Using Blanchard's signature breezy style, The One Minute Apology tells the story of a Young Man who wants to help his mentor, a company president, face and deal with some crucial mistakes he has made. For advice, the Young Man turns to a family friend, the One Minute Manager. What begins as a beautiful country weekend turns into an enlightening few days when he discovers what it truly means to apologize effectively when we have done something wrong. Through this engaging parable, Blanchard and McBride teach readers step-by-step how to accept responsibility for their errors and deal with the cause of the damage while maintaining a genuine sense of integrity.

Destined to join Ken Blanchard's other groundbreaking classics, The One Minute Apology offers businesspeople -- and just about anyone -- a cogent and clear-headed way of approaching one of life's most perplexing dilemmas: how to accept that we have made a wrong decision and how to correct it by making a meaningful apology. The techniques described in this simple but profound story will have significant results at work and at home.

Food Fights and Bedtime Battles: A Working Parent's Guide to Negotiating

Tim Jordan

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good easy read with a good perspective 4 out of 5 stars.
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I'm a mom to 2 girls - a 5yo and a almost 1 year old. I found this book an easy read and it put my oldest daughter's recent behaviour into perspective. It's all common sense but I found it reassuring to know that what I was dealing with was typical of the age. Contains some good advice on how to keep my own emotions in check.

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As every parent knows, children can turn anything from taking a bath and brushing their teeth, to eating a meal and going to bed, into a daily power struggle-if not all-out war.

In this informative yet down-to-earth guide, behavioral and developmental pediatrician Dr. Tim Jordan provides practical, non-judgmental solutions based on his own expertise and the experiences of real-life families. In addition to offering professional insights into every stage of a child's development, Dr. Jordan surveyed 500 working parents-and came up with a wealth of tips and tactics that really work.

Food Fights and Bedtime Battles includes a special solution section filled with simple, effective advice for every situation. Designed for the special challenges of busy parents, it addresses the daily pressures and frustrations parents face. And with a little patience and love, it will help parents and children to keep the peace-from breakfast to bedtime.

You Don't Really Know Me: Why Mothers and Daughters Fight and How Both Can Win

Terri E. Apter

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What do teenage girls really want from their mothers? British Psychologist Terri Apter offers uncommon wisdom about the "tricky equation" between a daughter's identity and that of her mother. Challenging the idea that girls want to reject dear old mom, Apter suggests that most battles between mothers and daughters are fought to transform the relationship rather than trash it. Arguments become a daughter's way of asking two essential questions: "How can I get my mother to see me the way I am or the way I want to be?" and "How can I keep this important relationship up-to-date and useful to me?" By focusing on how daughters can remain attached to their mothers as they grow, each chapter underlines conflict as means for a daughter to define herself. Apter avoids generalities and targets smart specifics with examples, strategies and sample conversations. She offers an anatomy of a mother-daughter meltdown, nails four patterns of teen lying, and offers guidelines for dialogue about rules and risk assessment. She explains how to navigate food fights, discouraging words, harsh hyperbole ("you are ruining my life!") and the "I know that already" sex talk. Battle fatigued mothers--and the daughters who want to love them without leaving them--will welcome Apter's hopeful, insightful approach. --Barbara Mackoff

How to Resolve Conflicts

L. Ron Hubbard

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Thought this was a "book", but it's more like a pamphlet 3 out of 5 stars.
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This turned out to be a pamphlet...only a few pages. Probably half of which are devoted to the actual subject of the book which is conflict resolution. I think the main idea is a very important one which everyone should be aware of and consider when involved in any kind of conflict. Even if one doesn't go around asking some of the hokey questions suggested, just realizing the "third party" is a good possiblity, one can then respond accordingly....and maybe refrain from reacting until the situation is better understood, thereby saving, possibly, a relationship or partnership, etc... If you've ever had someone blow up at you for what appears to be no reason, there's a good chance that person has been misled by something or someone along the way. By understanding the "third party" idea, you can avoid that kind of thing, and avoid reacting to what appear to be irrational accusations. I would have liked more information and/or examples. This is just, basically, an idea layed out there in a few pages.

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How to Resolve Conflicts-All conflicts and their complete resolution, form arguments between friends to full scale wars, are explained by the one fundamental and natural law of human relations covered in this booklet.

Are Your Parents Driving You Crazy? How to Resolve the Most Common Dilemmas with Aging Parents

Joseph A. Ilardo, Carole R., Ph.D. Rothman

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Will save you immense amounts of stressful anxiety 5 out of 5 stars.
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Joseph Ilardo and Carole Rothman effectively collaborate in Are Your Parents Driving You Crazy? to show stressed out adult children how to resolve the most common and frequently encountered dilemmas that arise from efforts to care their aging parents. Cogent, insightful, practical, and competent problem solving advice, suggestions, and observations are provided when an aging parent can no longer safely drives but is refusing to quit; detrimentally skimps on expenses even though they are not poverty stricken; refuse to see a doctor or ignore medical advice; want to move in with their children; antagonize home health aides and other support workers; are unwilling to discuss vital end-of-life issues and decisions; and more. Also of great and enduring value is the advice on handling adult siblings who refuse to help in the care and problems of the aging parent; resent the time spent caring for a parent; disagree, discourage, or undermine parental care efforts; steals from the parent, and more. If you are undertaking the responsibilities of caring for an aging parent, begin with a careful reading of Joseph Ilardo and Carole Rothman's Are Your Parents Driving You Crazy? It will save you immense amounts of stressful anxiety and bewildered frustration -- as well as substantially improve the quality and effectiveness of your efforts in behalf of your aging parent.

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Practical guide for people whose parents are still competent and on their own but showing signs of aging-like they should stop driving but won't, etc.

Dealing With Relatives (...even if you can't stand them) : Bringing Out the Best in Families at Their Worst

Rick Brinkman, Rick Kirschner

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You can have more fun with family! 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book provides such excellent material on improving relationships, reducing stressful situations and enjoying differences, it is hard to know where to start! The stories alone make it worth reading, and even has value for teenage readers (14 and up). Not just for holidays, this book can help people simplify and build better family relationships, resolve long-standing conflicts and create more loving interactions all year long. Add it to the first book by these authors and you have a complete communication/relationship education that will empower you in all your relationships for the rest of your life.

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The companion to the bestselling Dealing with People You Can't Stand

Whether it's the overbearing mother-in-law, the complaining uncle, or just the brother who annoys you at Thanksgiving, here is expert advice on how to successfully deal with every kind of behavior or situation that families face.

Divided into three essential sections: Basic Training, Types of Behavior, and Tough Situations, Dealing with Relatives covers all the skills required to navigate ­­and survive­­dreaded gatherings and excruciating visits. From learning "The Art of the Apology," to understanding the personality types common to most families, Drs. Rick and Rick come to the rescue once again by applying their winning combination of savvy advice and quick wit, along with new insights, anecdotes, and appealing cartoons.

Home Improvements: The Chapman Guide to Negotiating Change with Your Spouse (Chapman Guides)

Gary Chapman

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This is a quick, tight read --- perfect for brushing up on your marriage, even if it's already shining. 5 out of 5 stars.
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Couples resort to using manipulation within a marriage for one reason: it works! But anyone who has been married for very long will tell you that manipulation is a muddy foundation for any relationship --- it's messy and unstable. Are there other ways to get a spouse to change? Gary Chapman, author of the bestselling THE FOUR SEASONS OF MARRIAGES, believes that there are more effective, long-lasting and loving ways to negotiate change with those you love.

HOME IMPROVEMENTS, the latest addition in The Chapman Guide series, provides a practical, down-to-earth blueprint for building a solid foundation for a healthy marriage.

Why is the desire for spousal change so universal and yet the reality of real, lasting change so rarely experienced? Chapman believes that most couples are starting at the wrong place, failing to understand the power of love and lacking the skills to effectively communicate the desire for a spouse to change.

Real change begins by changing yourself and not waiting for your spouse to make the first change. Chapman prescribes looking for the "plank in your own eye" and assessing your own weaknesses and failures in the relationship. He even goes so far as to encourage asking for outside help from close friends and family members and listening to their observations about your marriage. No doubt some of the comments will sting, but, if used prayerfully, they can help you begin to recognize areas that you need to work on.

What about the change in your spouse? That starts only after you've begun to strengthen the foundation of love in your marriage by learning to speak your spouse's love languages. Chapman draws from his bestselling book, THE FIVE LOVE LANGUAGES, to encourage readers to fill up their spouse's love tank through words of affirmation, gifts, acts of service, quality time and physical touch.

Now down to the nitty-gritty: When you deliver a request for change to your spouse, sandwich it with compliments and remember that even the most minute movement toward change should be applauded. At the same time, it's important to keep in mind that some things will never change, and that the real change is going to have to come from you. Chapman shares a personal story from his own marriage. His wife has a tendency to leave cabinet doors open. After asking her to close them for months and growing more frustrated with the lack of response, the couple's child fell on an open drawer and cut herself. Chapman thought the incident would compel his wife to finally begin closing the drawers. Two months later, it finally dawned on him: she was never going to close drawers! Chapman says he was faced with a choice: be miserable every time he saw an open drawer, or accept this as something that will never change and close the drawers himself. He wisely chose the latter, recognizing that such a simple activity only takes a second a day.

Such down-to-earth wisdom and advice line the pages of HOME IMPROVEMENTS. This is a quick, tight read --- perfect for brushing up on your marriage, even if it's already shining.

--- Reviewed by Margaret Oines

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Those annoying habits can be damaging to a relationship over time. There's hope for change. Dr. Chapman provides a do-it-yourself approach to helping couples learn to overcome bad habits. By learning and using Dr. Chapman's simple 3-step process (admitting and asking forgiveness for your own past failures; discovering and speaking your spouse's love language; and learning the proper time, place, and way to request behavioral change), couples will be able to successfully negotiate change without resorting to arguing or manipulation.