Strategies for Helping Clients with Borderline Personalities in Divorce
Clients with borderline personality patterns can reach better outcomes when their professionals have the right tools. This 2-hour course covers the wide mood swings, intense rage against former partners, and desperate clinging to children that mark these cases, then the management strategies that work in court, negotiation, and mediation.
Your instructor
Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
Co-founder & Chief Innovation Officer, High Conflict Institute
500,000+
professionals trained worldwide
The rage and the mood swings are part of the case.
Borderline personality disorder brings predictable patterns to divorce: wide mood swings as clients, intense rage against former partners, desperate clinging to children, recurring custody battles, and sometimes abusive behavior or false allegations. Spotting the pattern early changes management and outcomes for everyone involved, including the client.
Outcomes you'll bring back from Borderline Personalities in Divorce.
- Understand borderline personality disorder as it presents in divorce.
- Spot the patterns early in a case for better management and outcomes.
- Anticipate predictable parenting behaviors, court patterns, and negotiation patterns.
- Manage clients with BPD, and opposing parties with BPD, differently.
- Handle abusive behavior and false allegations, grounded in case examples.
- Manage continuing conflicts after court decisions have been made.
Who Borderline Personalities in Divorce is built for.
Attorneys
Represent (or face) borderline personalities with a strategy instead of a scramble.
Counselors & Therapists
Clinical context for clients navigating divorce with BPD dynamics in play.
Judges
Recognize the pattern behind repeat filings and courtroom volatility.
Parenting Coordinators
Manage post-decree conflict where borderline dynamics keep it alive.
Mediators
Structure sessions that hold through mood swings and rage.
GALs & Visitation Supervisors
Understand the clinging, the fear of abandonment, and what it means for children.
How Borderline Personalities in Divorce is delivered.
Two hours on-demand in two parts: Part 1, understanding borderline personalities in divorce. Part 2, dealing with them as clients and opposing parties.
- 2-hour video course — Understanding the disorder, then managing it, with case examples throughout.
- PowerPoint PDF — Downloadable slides to keep as a reference.
- Certificate of Completion — 2 hours documented.
Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq. is the co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer of the High Conflict Institute. He pioneered the High Conflict Personality Theory (HCP) and is an international expert on managing disputes involving people with high-conflict personalities. He is the author or co-author of more than 25 books, manuals, and workbooks, co-host of the podcast It's All Your Fault!, and writes a Psychology Today blog with millions of views.
Before co-founding HCI, Bill was the Senior Family Mediator at the National Conflict Resolution Center for 15 years, a Certified Family Law Specialist lawyer representing clients in family court for 15 years, and a licensed clinical social worker therapist with twelve years of experience. He has served on the faculty of the Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution at Pepperdine University School of Law, taught as a Conjoint Associate Professor with the University of Newcastle Law School in Australia, and trained professionals in over 35 U.S. states and 13 countries.
Borderline Personalities in Divorce — frequently asked questions.
Who is this course for?
Is this part of a larger course?
How do I access the course?
Will I get continuing education credit?
Is this legal or therapeutic advice?
Can our team or organization get this training together?
Ready to enroll?
Enroll an individual seat now, or talk to us about a private cohort designed around your organization's actual cases.
