Therapeutic Family Mediation: Helping Families Resolve Conflict

By Howard H. Irving and Michael Benjamin

Book Overview

Designed as a practical hands-on manual or text for students and professors of social work, Therapeutic Family Mediation will also prove highly useful to mental health practitioners, legal professionals and mediators, couples going through divorce, and community workers specializing in family services.

Key Features:

Guides the reader through the authors' five-step model: Intake/Assessment, Pre-Mediation, Negotiation, Termination, and Follow-UpOutlines the use of parenting plans and financial plansExplores patterns of conflict and monetary issuesExplains the process of drafting contractsProvides the tools necessary for assisting high-conflict couples and culturally diverse couples

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761923136
• ISBN13: 9780761923138
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.1" x 9.9"