As divorce rates rise, family mediation represents an alternative way of making settlements without involving an already overburdened judicial system. This book presents a discussion of the current North American trends in the burgeoning field of family mediation by featuring both a review of the literature and a model for family mediation practice. The practice model presented here, Therapeutic Family Mediation, stresses an ecological perspective, and considers the feminist critique of the mediation process. The authors also address mediation's role in the important issues of joint custody,...
As divorce rates rise, family mediation represents an alternative way of making settlements without involving an already overburdened judicial system....
For three decades Dr. Howard H. Irving has championed the use of divorce mediation outside the adversarial court system to save couples and their children from the bitter legacy of legal wrangling and winner-takes-all custody battles. Now, calling on his vast experience mediating more than 2,000 cases, Irving has written Children Come First directly for couples contemplating or undergoing divorce.
In this book the author takes a tripartite approach that points out:
the dangers of the adversarial approach to divorce,
the benefits of divorce mediation,...
For three decades Dr. Howard H. Irving has championed the use of divorce mediation outside the adversarial court system to save couples and their c...
