Divorce and Family Mediation Models, Techniques, and Applications

Abstract

Reviews the book Divorce and Family Mediation Models, Techniques, and Applications edited by Jay Folberg, Ann L. Milne, and Peter Salem (see record [rid]2005-00317-000[/rid]). This book has four parts. Part I is an introductory chapter on the evolution of divorce and family mediation. Part II provides an overview of different mediation models and approaches to mediation practice. Part III encompasses mediation techniques and interventions and contains chapters on mediating financial issues, on working with children in mediation, on parenting children separately after divorce, on responding to power issues, on managing the communication process and on managing impasses in the mediation process. Part IV considers applications of the mediation process with populations whose special problems might lead one to an a priori conclusion that mediation cannot be effective. There are chapters on mediation with never-married parents, with spouse abusers and victims, with same-sex couples, with blended families, and finally a chapter on mediating in the shadow of an affair. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)