Stop Arguing and Start Understanding : Eight Steps to Solving Family Conflicts

Even one parent alone can stop the fighting and begin the healing with the help of this inspiring book. Case studies and real-life examples from Dr. Hall's files illustrate a wide range of issues that plague families from privacy and discipline to substance abuse and help parents see how to create positive change. An experienced, practicing child psychiatrist, Dr. David C. Hall, shows parents how to use the five basic skills of parenting to stay loving, firm and good-natured; how to lay out ground rules for peaceful family discussions, how parents and children can negotiate together, how family trouble can be handed down through the generations.

David C. Hall, M.D., is a child, adolescent, and family psychiatrist in private practice in Seattle. He completed nine years of medical and psychiatric training at the University of Washington and has served as national president of Physicians for Social Responsibility