The Practitioner's Guide to Mediation: A Client Centered Approach

What is mediation and why is it needed?

Who can become a mediator?

How can you incorporate mediation into your practice? Are there any pitfalls?

The Practitioner’s Guide to Mediation answers all of these critical questions and much more as it guides you through the process of breaking into this lucrative field. Written by the leading experts on the subject and founders of the Erickson Mediation Institute, this practical guidebook will provide you with all the information you’ll need to incorporate mediation into your existing range of services and build a successful practice. Packed with helpful advice and tips, Erickson and McKnight clearly show you how to confidently mediate family, divorce, and workplace disputes. They also take you step-by-step through their client-centered approach so that you can develop new ways of thinking to resolve conflicts that will benefit everyone.

Written by the leading experts at Erickson Mediation Institute, The Practitioner’s Guide to Mediation offers much-needed advice and tips on how to become a successful mediator. The authors take you inside the mediation room and explain exactly what the mediator’s role is in managing both the people involved and the conflict. Emphasizing a client-centered approach, they show you how to create a cooperative environment that helps clients resolve issues quickly and achieve shared goals that are beneficial to everyone.

Erickson and McKnight explain how to apply the client-centered approach in divorce, family, custody, and workplace conflict mediation. Using actual case studies and dialogue, they also offer guidance on how to tackle some of the most difficult situations. Through their experiences, you’ll gain a better understanding of how powerful this approach is for promoting healing and resolving problems.

You’ll find additional insight on how to get the proper training as a mediator and build a mediation practice. The authors uncover all of the options available to you and explore the benefits of learning and applying mediation skills –while alerting you to the practical pitfalls to avoid. They also:

• Offer actual case studies and dialogue that take you inside the mediation room
• Show how to ask the right questions and create a positive environment
• Reveal the do’s and don’ts of mediation ethics and accountability

Whether you’re considering mediation as an addition to your existing professional practice or as a stand-alone profession, The Practitioner’s Guide to Mediation is the perfect resource to help you make the right decisions.

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Founders of a mediation facility explain a client-centered approach to mediating in cases on divorce, family, custody, and workplace conflict, using actual case studies and dialogue. The trick, they point out, is to create a cooperative environment that helps clients resolve issues quickly and achieve shared goals. They also offer insight into getting proper training as a mediator and building a mediation practice. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

STEPHEN K. ERICKSON, JD, and MARILYN S. McKNIGHT, MA, are the founders of Erickson Mediation Institute, a leading mediation facility. They hold numerous training workshops and lectures throughout the year on mediating a variety of conflicts. Erickson and McKnight are also the authors of Mediating Divorce published by Jossey-Bass.