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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, ethnicity, and child protection. Future directions in family mediation are examined in the final part.
Family Mediation Practice and the Knowledge Base: An Integrative Review of the Divorce Research Literature (Phases 1 Through 3)
Family Mediation Practice and the Knowledge Base: An Integrative Review of the Divorce Research Literature (Phases 1 Through 3)
Introduction
The past 40 years have seen a radical change in the way clinical practitioners, researchers, theorists, and society at large have come to think about divorce (Masheter, 1990). Before 1960, divorce was a relatively rare event in North America and heavily stigmatized (Bloom, Asher, & White, 1978; McKie, Prentice, & Reed, 1983). Even the research literature gave it very little attention (Goode, 1949, 1956; Locke, 1951). Equally important, it was seen as a one-time event so that when research did finally begin, the researchers of the day tended ...
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