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What Makes Conflict? How Are Conflicts Resolved?
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Conflicts can create irritation, anger, anxiety, or depression. This 3-step pathway from conflict to resolution will make your life feel easier, happier, and more peaceful.
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What Sport Does Collaborative Dialogue Mimic?
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Cluelessness about the skills that sustain cooperative dialogue puts people at risk for difficulties in their relationships—in friendships, at work, and at home.
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What Stops Arguments? Emotional Self-Regulation Skills
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Five emotional-self-regulation techniques that can help put an end to arguing.
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What Tennis Players Understand About Handling Losses
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Tennis players need to become masters of managing disappointment. Winning is an addictive upper. Yet by the end of every tournament, all the players but one have lost.
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What Dogs Can Teach Us about the Main Cause of Depression
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Psychologists have long pondered what is the cause, and the evolutionary purpose, of depressed feelings. Dogs have the answer.
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The Art of Disagreeing Agreeably
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Do you avoid conflict? This strategy can enable you to share your differing view in a way that keeps your relationships harmonious.
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Solve Tough Dilemmas With the Win-Win Waltz
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To settle conflicts with resolutions you both feel good about, use this worksheet to guide you through the three steps of the "win-win waltz." You can both always be right.
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Protests: Potent or Impotent?
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"You have to fight to feel good." In my twenties, when I was living in New York with a group of post-college friends, Bob was a tall handsome young man in our cadre who took this slogan about protests as his raison d'etre. But is it true? When are protests and fights good for you?
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Pakistan Could Use a Therapeutic Intervention
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A Pakistani scholar of international relations has proposed a strategy for helping her country shift from a culture of violence to a culture of collaborative dialogue and cooperative conflict resolution. The program she proposes is remarkably similar to the work I do as a therapist with couples in conflict.
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Mending a Broken Family; Strengthening a Healthy Family
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Families can be fountains of strength. At the same time, all families are fragile. Internal factors like a parent with mental health issues, and also outside factors like job loss or economic stresses, can overwhelm a couple's abilities to cope in good humor. One temporarily fractured couple has written profound advice relevant to all parents.
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Marriage Arguments: Can All Conflicts Be Resolved?
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Can all marriage conflicts be resolved? Two leading marriage psychologists, Dr. Gottman and Dr. Heitler, attempt to resolve their opposing views on this issue.
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How the Brits and the EU Could Botch Their Divorce
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With emotions running high, will anger, anxiety and depression cause all sides of this divorce to be losers?
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