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Family Mediation: Contemporary Issues

Family Mediation: Contemporary Issues

Author: Marian Roberts; Maria Federica Moscati
Publisher: Bloomsbury Professional (formerly Tottel Publishing)
ISBN: 9781526505415
Published In: May 2020
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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The modern emergence of mediation in the West in the 1980s represents a profound transformation of civil disputing practice, particularly in the field of family justice. In the field of family disputes mediation has emerged to fill a gap which none of the existing services, lawyers and courts on the one hand, or welfare, advisory or therapeutic interventions on the other, could in their nature have filled.

In the UK mediation is now the approved pathway in the current landscape of family dispute resolution processes, officially endorsed and publicly funded by government to provide separating and divorcing families with the opportunity to resolve their disputes co-operatively with less acrimony, delay and cost than the traditional competitive litigation and court process.

The consolidation of the professional practice of family mediation reflects its progress and creativity in respect both of the expanding focus on professional quality assurance as well as on developments of policy, practice guidelines and training to address central concerns about the role of children in mediation, screening for domestic abuse, sexual orientation and gender identity as well as cross-cultural issues including the role of interpreters in the process. Other areas of innovation include the application of family mediation to a growing range of family conflict situations involving, for example, international family disputes (including cross border, relocation and child abduction issues).

Written by leaders in family mediation, Family Mediation: Contemporary Theoretical and Practice Issues provides a contemporary account of current practice developments and research concerning family mediation across a range of issues in the UK and Ireland.

Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Relationship of Mediators to Legal Professionals and the Legal Framework
Chapter 3: Development of Regulatory Framework
Chapter 4: Training Issues and Standards
Chapter 5: Power Issues
Chapter 6: High Conflict Cases
Chapter 7: Psychological Dynamics
Chapter 8: Role of Children
Chapter 9: Child Abduction and Relocation
Chapter 10: Cross-cultural Issues
Chapter 11: Muslim Families
Chapter 12: Same-Sex Relationships
Chapter 13: Scottish Developments
Chapter 14: Irish Developments
Chapter 15: Cross-Border Developments
Chapter 16: Summarisation