Books published by HCI Press

Sam the Tram's Dance Club is a children's book unlike any other. The text is an Empowerment Script(TM). It's meant to be read back and forth, from left to right and then right to left. The first line of text is written > as > you > are > reading,.way < other < the < goes < next < the < and> to > right, .left < to < right < thenThis style of writing, invented by the Ancient Greeks, stimulates connection between the two sides of the brain. The bilateral eye movements help can help any reader relax, let go of stress, and be more creative. Professionals familiar with EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) will see the potential for readers with trauma or dissociation. This reading technique also holds promise for ADHD (attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder) and dyslexia.Join Sam, Melba, and the kids as they fix Grand Union Junction and learn to dance the "tramba." Children can read this book alone or by following an adult's finger movements. Grown-ups enjoy the book too!With colorful illustrations, a gentle story about overcoming difficulties, and a breakthrough approach to reading, Sam the Tram's Dance Club offers readers preschool and up a calming, fun way to build new neural pathways and healthier states of mind.

In this 10th anniversary edition, attorney, mediator, and therapist Eddy explains how to protect children from the harm of alienation and high-conflict divorce, boosting their resilience by teaching them to think flexibly, manage their emotions, and moderate their behaviors.

Set in modern Iran, this is one woman’s story of survival, ambition, sex, and power while trapped in "temporary marriage."

A secret binds them together, the truth will unravel them.Jenny Ocean’s life is already on shaky ground when a violent attack sparks a chain of events that leaves her with a terrible secret that she can share with no one, and which clouds her every waking moment with guilt and fear for years to come. Trying to make amends, Jenny works hard and becomes a professional counselor dedicated to helping others unravel their problems. For a time, it seems her life is finally on track, but her past catches up with her in the form of Rio Winston. At first an enigmatic client, Rio turns out to be a narcissistic serial killer who leverages her past to draw her into a web of complicity in his delusional and homicidal mission. Jenny becomes trapped in a confusing, dark journey mixing horror and fascination, balancing her coerced alliance with Rio with her affair with police detective Sam Longford—only to find that the distance separating a killer from the law isn’t as great as she once thought. Featuring a trio of characters bound together by desire, obsession, grandiosity, and remorseless need, Harm Reduction journeys into the depravity of serial murder, the pain of ambivalence, moral compromise in the face of survival, and the tenuous hope of finding a way out.

High conflict mediation requires a paradigm shift from traditional mediation-high conflict experts Bill Eddy and Michael Lomax show you how.Over the past ten years the authors have been developing and practicing tips for managing high conflict clients in mediation, which is now a fully developed new method called New Ways for Mediation®. Mediating High Conflict Disputes gives all of the little tips which any mediator can use, as well as the step-by-step structure of the New Ways for Mediation method for those who want to have better control of the process in high conflict cases-or any cases.Bill Eddy is primarily a family mediator in San Diego, California, with a worldwide reputation for training mediators, lawyers, judges and counselors in methods for working with clients with "high conflict" personality disorders or traits. He is the recipient of the Academy of Professional Mediatiors Family Mediation Lifetime Achievement Award 2021. Michael Lomax is a mediator dealing with family, workplace, military and government agency disputes in British Columbia, Canada. Both have provided training in this method for High Conflict Institute over the past ten years.This book is divided into three parts: Part 1 provides a thorough explanation of the thinking and behavior of parties with high conflict personalities, with an emphasis on what does not work and should be avoided.Part 2 provides a detailed description of the New Ways for Mediation method, including several paradigm shifts in each step of the process for greater success. Its similarities and differences with interest-based negotiations and transformative mediation methods are explained. Part 3 includes numerous examples describing cases with special issues in several settings, including family, workplace, and disputes involving government agencies.

First printing: 1,000This is a continuation of our line of publications for the very specific and narrow field of forensic psychology in family law, all by the same author.The market will specifically be psychologists and some family law attorneys.The author is a frequent keynote speaker at family law conferences.Publisher will reach out to its vast list of family law professionals in the U.S., Canada, and Australia.Publisher will run a strong digital media campaign.Galleys (and egalleys via Edelweiss) available 6 months in advance of publication.

•First printing: 6,000•This is the third title in our successful "Borderline Personality Disorder Awareness Series" for people who struggle with the disorder and their families (2015 and 2018)•This book follows in the tradition of the top-selling Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous and other similar Big Books for addictions and disorders•The author, who was diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder and has been in recovery many years, writes from first-person perspective of one who has struggled and recovered, instead of the typical "written by psychiatrists/psychologists" perspective.•The author has a 6,000+ YouTube following (Recovery Mum) where she has more than 250 videos on Borderline Personality Disorder and she actively communicates with her followers from all points of the globe.•The author will actively promote the book through her YouTube channel; through www.bpdhouse.com, a site for those affected with Borderline Personality Disorder; through speaking events; and through a planned podcast on the disorder.•Strong potential in mental health/psychology sections of any bookstore when placed next to other books on Borderline Personality Disorder, because it provides an insider's look at the diagnostic criteria of the disorder and how to recover from it.•Galleys (and egalleys via Edelweiss) available 4 months in advance of publication.

In this second edition of Second-Hand Shock, including the Aftershock Workbook, the experts explore the subtle and covert ways that absorbing others' trauma while controlling empathy can lead to vicarious trauma by gradually altering the structure of the brain, negatively affecting the mind and ultimately desensitizing, numbing, and causing these disturbances. Working through the Aftershock Workbook provides healing and relief.Offering acknowledgment and hope to the millions of helping professionals, > and the >, guide helping professionals through the Rapid Advance Process to recovery. Once you recognize the warning signs and symptoms of vicarious trauma, you will find relief and recovery as you work through your own vicarious trauma through the >.

The Borderline Personality Disorder Wellness Planner provides 52 weeks of wellness planning, inspiration for parents, spouses, siblings, and partners of those who are suffering with the emotion dysregulation and self-sabotaging behaviors associated with borderline personality disorder.