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Contents

The Practice of Mediation: A Video-Integrated Text

Summary of Contents

  1. "So You Want to Study Mediation?" An Introduction to the Processes of Mediation and the Skills of Effective Mediators
  2. Basics of Negotiation Theory and Why Negotiations Fail
  3. The Role of the Mediator: Differing Approaches, Fundamental Norms
  4. Preparing to Mediate
  5. Mediation as a Structured Process
  6. Opening the Process, Developing Information
  7. Expanding Information to Aid the Negotiations
  8. Identifying and Framing Mediation Issues, Organizing an Agenda
  9. Generating Movement through Problem-Solving and Persuasion
  10. Conducting the Bargaining, Dealing with Impasse
  11. Concluding the Mediation
  12. The Ethics of Mediating
  13. Representing Clients in Mediation

    Appendix A:  Mediation Transcripts for Analysis
  
Appendix B:  Model Standards of Conduct for Mediators (September 2005)
  
Appendix C:  Model Standards of Practice for Family and Divorce Mediation (2001)
  
Appendix D:  Uniform Mediation Act (Excerpts)
  
Appendix E:  Selected Excerpts, A.B.A. Model Rules of Professional Conduct
  
Appendix F:  Tolman Screening Model (Modified)
  
DVD Index
  
Index