Mediation in Family Disputes - Principles of Practice

Informationen zum Autor Marian Roberts is qualified as a barrister and a social worker and has been in continuous practice as a family mediator since 1982 at the South East London Family Mediation Bureau, one of the first family mediation services in the UK. She is a Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science and Professorial Research Associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, where she teaches Alternative Dispute Resolution on their respective graduate programmes. Klappentext This is the authoritative textbook on family mediation. It draws on a wide cross-disciplinary theoretical literature and on the author's extensive and continuing practice experience. It encompasses developments in policy, research and practice in the UK and beyond. Zusammenfassung This is the authoritative textbook on family mediation. It draws on a wide cross-disciplinary theoretical literature and on the author's extensive and continuing practice experience. It encompasses developments in policy, research and practice in the UK and beyond. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents: Preface to Fourth Edition; Prologue; What is family mediation?; The emergence of family mediation; The legal context; Conflict and disputes; Negotiation and mediation; The mediator; The session and the strategies; When to mediate; Confidentiality; Children and the mediation process; Fairness; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Marian Roberts
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2014
• EAN: 9781409450337
• ISBN: 978-1-4094-5033-7
• No. of pages: 300
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Miscellaneous; Medicine, LAW / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Work, LAW / Alternative Dispute Resolution, Social welfare & social services, Family Law, Social welfare and social services, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Medicine and Nursing