EDDY WILLIAM LCSW ATTY
SAN DIEGO, CA:
How Professionals Become Negative Advocates
© by Bill Eddy, LCSW, Esq.
Most professionals are helping professionals. We like to help our clients as lawyers, mediators, therapists, arbitrators, social workers, human resource professionals, financial professionals, healthcare professionals, educators, administrators and others. We want to help people accomplish their goals, using our professional skills. Often, in order to help someone in a dispute or difficult situation, part of our work is to advocate for a client in dealing with one or more other people.
But when a client has a high-conflict personality, there is the risk that this drive to help can go off the rails and…
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