Facilitative Mediation

Abstract

(from the chapter) Facilitative mediation can be highly structured, very open ended, and either process or outcome oriented with an interventionist or passive mediator. Bernard Mayer offers a flexible approach to facilitative mediation, suggesting that rigid adherence to any model is seldom wise. This chapter examines definitions and characteristics as well as values and assumptions of facilitative mediation, challenges to facilitative mediation in family mediation, behaviors of facilitative mediators, and critiques of the facilitative process. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved)