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The effect of victim‐offender mediation on severity of reoffense
Authors: Nugent William R. , Paddock Jeffrey B. 
Published: July 2007

AbstractThis article describes an investigation of the relationship between participation in a victim‐offender reconciliation program (VORP) and subsequent reoffense by children and adolescents. Two random samples of children and adolescents were drawn: one from participants in a VORP and a second from a population who went through a more traditional juvenile justice approach. An ordinal ranking of subsequent reqffenses by these children and adolescents was constructed, and ordinal logistic regression procedures were used to test the relationship between program participation and severity of subsequent reoffense. The results suggest that, after controlling for a number of potentially confounding variables, VORP participants are less likely to reoffend within a year of their VORP meeting, and if they do reoffend, will commit less serious offenses than children and adolescents who go through a more traditional juvenile justice approach.
Issues in the termination of mediation due to abuse
Authors: Barsky Allan Edward 
Published: July 2007

AbstractThis article explores the ethical and clinical issues facing mediators when they deal with situations in which mediation may need to be terminated due to concerns of abuse. The analysis presents a strategic framework for examining ethical dilemmas and applies it to a specific fact situation. Although courts and ethicists suggest that safety concerns take precedence over other values, implementation of any policy on abuse is restricted by lack of consensus among mediators and insufficient knowledge about the immediate and longterm effects of different courses of action.
Research in family mediation: Review and implications
Authors: Benjamin Michael , Irving Howard H. 
Published: July 2007

AbstractThe rising popularity and prominence of family mediation has meant increasing research attention. In this article, the authors review fifty‐one studies in terms of three categories of research focus: process, outcomes, and predictors of mediated agreement. The authors conclude that family mediation is an effective and efficient service technology that, at its best, can be more helpful than litigation in assisting divorcing couples in conflict. The implications of this conclusion are examined for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners.
Power imbalance in divorce and interpersonal mediation: Assessment and intervention
Authors: Kelly Joan B. 
Published: July 2007

AbstractThis article explores the nature of power and power imbalance in interpersonal relationships and presents a framework for assessing conditions that create the potential for unequal power in mediation. A variety of mediator interventions are discussed that may empower disputants when power differentials threaten the integrity of the mediation process and outcomes.
The disputing process: An ethnographic study of a homeowners association
Authors: Yang Honggang 
Published: July 2007

AbstractThis article is based on a year‐long fieldwork in Florida. It examines an institutionalised structure involving the common property managed by a homeowners association where dispute resolution mechanisms are in demand. The ethnographic case materials describe a legend of the resident manager, a legal battle, over the board election, recurrent problems with the limited commons, and mentalities of volunteers. The field research reveals the embedded disharmonies of and ongoing disputes over the management of the commons as viewed from a perspective of legal anthropology.
The role of the mediator in family mediation
Authors: Cohen Orna , Dattner Naomi 
Published: July 2007

AbstractThis article examines the kinds of knowledge and qualifications as well as special skills that a family mediator should possess in order to arrive at suitable divorce settlements that take the needs of the children and the life‐styles of the parents into account. The authors also identify the professions that provide the requisite knowledge and skills.
Resolving parental abduction: Child find of America's mediation program
Authors: Millar Helen D. 
Published: July 2007

AbstractThe majority of children abducted in the United States are taken by a relative or parent. Recognizing the potential value of mediation in such situations, Child Find of America, Inc., developed a program in 1986 to help prevent and resolve parental abductions. Central to Child Find's mediation program are pro bono mediators, most of whom are Practitioner Members of the Academy of Family Mediators. This article describes how Child Find's over‐the‐phone mediation program works: the underlying theoretical assumptions, the roles of the personnel involved, the protocols for screening and referring cases to mediators, the success criteria, and some sample successful and unsuccessful cases.
Practical and ethical concerns in divorce mediation: Attending to emotional factors affecting mediator judgment
Authors: deMayo Robert A. 
Published: July 2007

AbstractDivorce mediation can require on‐the‐spot decisions regarding a variety of complex practical and ethical issues. Drawing upon intersubjective theory, the author describes how the interactive nature of mediation may increase the mediator's potential for emotional reactions, thereby influencing mediator judgment. A case example is provided to illustrate the manner in which this emotional reactivity may compromise standards of practice. Six recommendations to maintain sound mediation practices within the context of emotionally provocative circumstances are provided.
Transformative mediation and third‐party intervention: Ten hallmarks of a transformative approach to practice
Authors: Folger Joseph P. , Bush Robert A. Baruch 
Published: July 2007

AbstractThe transformative approach to mediation and third‐party intervention is seen as attractive by many practitioners, but they are still somewhat unsure of its precise contours in practice. To clarify these contours, the authors describe ten major patterns of practice that they believe characterize the work of intervenors who follow this approach. These “hallmarks” of transformative practice range from the content of mediators' opening statements, to their attitudes about party competence and motivation, to their willingness to deal with emotion and conflict history. Together, the hallmarks paint a clearer picture of this approach to intervention. They also help clarify some misunderstandings that have arisen about the approach.
Respecting the struggle: Following the parties' lead
Authors: Grillo Trina 
Published: July 2007

AbstractInterventions that demonstrate respect for the parties, that acknowledge their process, and that support their personal struggle to express their ideas and feelings are hallmarks of effective mediation practice. By supporting the opportunity to express anger in appropriate and genuine ways and to express resistance to the process and to alternative solutions, mediators evidence respect for the parties and their process. This article explores the connection between such respect and notions of empowerment and recognition.
The production of power and knowledge in mediation
Authors: Pinzón Luis Arturo 
Published: July 2007

AbstractThis article critically reflects the development of mediation through the dynamics of power and knowledge. Some main accounts of the mediation movement are synthesized. From these the most general main account found in mediation literature is chosen and used for an analysis, which focuses on the concepts of power and knowledge. This exploration shows how one of the main approaches to mediation is being transformed into a power mechanism at the microlevel of society, which has been—and continues to be—colonized and transformed by even more general mechanisms. These issues raise questions regarding future developments within the field of mediation.
Mediation of mobile home landlord‐tenant disputes: An assessment of government agency implementation of mediation
Authors: Stiftel Bruce 
Published: July 2007

AbstractChanges in Florida's mobile home landlord‐tenant mediation program afford the opportunity to compare two different program designs: one using novice mediators, the other using experienced mediators; one effectively mandating mediation, the other allowing voluntary use of mediation. The comparison shows higher settlement rates when experienced mediators are used in a voluntary mediation context, but the voluntary program experiences greater attrition between the request for mediation and the actual mediation sessions.
Mediation of children issues when one parent is gay: A cultural perspective
Authors: Campbell Alan 
Published: July 2007

AbstractThe author suggests that the development of a homosexual lifestyle involves entering a new cultural perspective, a subculture essentially different from its heterosexual counterpart. The mediators job is to try to interpret this new subculture in order to develop understanding between the participants that will allow them to continue their parenting tasks together while developing very different personal lives. One way of doing this is to act as both a “tourist” and a “tour guide.” It is argued that by using this approach the mediator can become more effective in these cases.
A nationwide survey of mediation centers
Authors: McKinney Bruce C. , Kimsey William D. , Fuller Rex M. 
Published: July 2007

AbstractThe study reported here examined the current status of mediation in the United States based on responses from 146 mediation centers in thirty‐nine states and the District of Columbia. Specific areas addressed in this survey included staffing and funding concerns, caseload, services provided, mediator qualifications, memberships and affiliations, education, and training. It can be concluded from these survey data that mediation is now a firmly established form of alternative dispute resolution in the United States with services available (for example, community mediation, divorce mediation, and victim‐offender reconciliation programs) to those seeking nontraditional ways of resolving disputes.
Mediation on 125th street: Commerce and conflict resolution in Harlem
Authors: Stamato Linda 
Published: July 2007

AbstractOn December 8, 1995, a street vendor entered a discount clothing store on 125th Street in Harlem that he had been picketing for several weeks. He fired a gun indiscriminately, killing several people, and doused the place with a flammable liquid, which he ignited before turning his weapon on himself. Eight people died, including the deranged assailant; others were injured, and the store was reduced to ruins. The genesis of this tragedy was a contentious commercial dispute between a Jewish landlord and his African American tenant. The roots of the clash lie deeper, embedded in historic resentments, racial and class antagonisms, the disappearance of jobs, and the political gamesmanship endemic to the community (Finder, 1994; Gray, 1994; Hicks, 1994). The author analyzes the tragedy and argues for the mediation of commercial disputes. She asserts that mediation provides value directly, by managing specific disputes, as well as indirectly, by helping to create a constructive environment for economic development and social cohesion.
A mediation approach designed by adolescent disputants
Authors: Pastorino Ray 
Published: July 2007

AbstractThis article outlines the development of a paradigm for the mediation process as used by students and the potential use of the process to reduce and prevent violence through the development of alternative skills and nonadversarial options for resolving conflict. The peer‐student‐user model developed suggests a new definition for resolution, the ability to potentiate safe and authentic communication rather than an end product (agreement), and suggests a healing option and a transformation process that fosters authentic communication, understanding, acceptance, empowerment, and skill building. This paradigm or model focuses on the users—people in conflict—rather than the actions of mediators as experts and, therefore, empowers meaningful resolution and ongoing learning of self and other. Recent research, developmental theory, and the user's model are presented and used to suggest the importance of delivering these skills to children by the third grade for integrative lifelong use and (potentially) for the reduction of violence.
Mediating when domestic violence is a factor: Policies and practices in court‐based divorce mediation programs
Authors: Pearson Jessica 
Published: July 2007

AbstractDomestic violence is estimated to be a factor in at least one‐half the cases served at court‐based divorce mediation programs, with only about 5 percent excluded because of concerns about safety or power imbalance. This article looks at how mediators and program administrators say they have responded to the criticisms of advocates for victims of domestic violence by developing ways to gauge the capacity to mediate and to modify the mediation process in order to enhance safety. It draws on responses to a national survey of program practices and in‐depth examination of court‐based divorce mediation programs in five settings.
Achieving neutrality and impartiality: The ultimate communication challenge for peer mediators
Authors: Hale Claudia L. , Nix Chris 
Published: July 2007

AbstractThis article critically examines the communications of a selected group of peer mediators who serve an “at‐risk” middle school. Based on our analyses, we identified instances of both neutral and nonneutral mediator communications as well as impartial and nonimpartial mediator communications. These findings are used as a basis for offering recommendations concerning peer mediation training programs.
Mediation and Society in Microcosm: Providing Family Mediation Services to Low‐Income Families
Authors: Noce Dorothy J. Della 
Published: July 2007

AbstractThe Symposium on Providing Family Mediation Services to Low Income Families, sponsored by the Academy of Family Mediators and other leading professional organizations, is the basis for this article, which sets out the history and purpose of the symposium, its content, and the conclusions reached among the participants at the two‐day conference. This article also describes some of the important concerns in providing mediation services to low‐income families, as well as the challenges to the creation and implementation of programs to meet the needs of such families.
Family mediation by the community mediation service in Boulder, Colorado
Authors: Coates Christine A. , Damas Kon 
Published: July 2007

AbstractTwo programs of the Community Mediation Service of the City of Boulder, Colorado, specifically address family issues: the Youth Services Mediation Program, which is not limited to low‐income participants, and the Divorce and Child Custody Mediation Program, which is a program for low‐income participants. This article describes the parent‐teen component of the two programs. Parent‐teen disputes are mediated by a volunteer co‐mediation team of an adult and teen mediator trained in general mediation skills. Divorce and Child Custody Program volunteer mediators are trained in general mediation and in specific divorce and child custody mediation and legal issues.
Access to mediation services for rural, low‐income, and culturally diverse populations
Authors: McKnight Marilyn S. 
Published: July 2007

AbstractLow‐income, rural, and culturally diverse populations have less access to divorce mediation services than other groups and are limited to legal aid services if they qualify, a private attorney if affordable, or a pro se divorce. Cooperative Solutions' experience serving these same populations with highly trained, well‐qualified mediators who are professionally remunerated and recognized for their good work mediating divorces contrasts greatly with the usual outcomes in these areas. Parents make decisions that consider their children's needs for relationship with each parent after the divorce, child support is paid based on an understanding of what children need, and clients have the opportunity to work out division of assets and debts reasonably with understanding and cooperation.
Welfare as we have never known it
Authors: Severens Kathleen 
Published: July 2007

AbstractWelfare reform offers an opportunity to integrate mediation into administrative agency operations and to provide a valuable alternative to welfare recipients as they move toward self‐sufficiency. The Nebraska Office of Dispute Resolution and the Department of Health and Human Services are in the second year of an interagency agreement to provide mediation services in an affordable, comprehensive, and sensitive manner. A number of lessons have been learned in the initial stage of the program. The welfare reform movement offers an excellent opportunity for community providers to forge new relationships with government agencies that will extend the principles of mediation (self‐determination and empowerment) into the workings of the system and to the people served by it.
Court‐annexed child custody mediation in New York City: A collaboration among three organizations
Authors: Reiniger Anne , Tudy‐Jackson Janice 
Published: July 2007

AbstractA unique collaborative effort among the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the New York Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and the Victim Services Manhattan Mediation Program has produced a court‐annexed program, called the Mediation Services Project, that offers mediation services to low‐income families dealing with child custody and visitation disputes. This article describes the Mediation Services Project, its services, and the cooperative effort required to initiate and sustain it.
Conflict management and mediation training: A vehicle for community empowerment?
Authors: Maxwell Jennifer P. 
Published: July 2007

AbstractThe following case study examines the use of conflict management and mediation training as a vehicle for community empowerment for residents of public housing estates in a large Midwestern city. Lederach's elicitive and prescriptive training models are used as a framework to explain the dynamics of power and disempowerment. Findings suggest that while training was an empowering experience for participants in the training setting, transferring these skills to the community setting was difficult. The external environment must be structured to allow training participants to employ their skills once training is complete if community empowerment is to succeed.
Strategies in mediation explored and developed during a research project
Authors: Tjersland Odd Arm 
Published: July 2007

AbstractThis article presents strategies in mediation based on experiences from a mediation project conducted in Oslo, Norway. The mediators integrate knowledge from the mediation tradition and the family therapy tradition. The author describes several motivating, structuring, confirming, and meaning‐expanding strategies in the sessions, and how clients are helped to reach decisions. The mediation is structured. At the same time, the mediators try to give emotional reactions a legitimate place. In style they are more like conversational partners than advisers, and solutions are based on the parties' own ideas and competence.
Action‐evaluation and conflict resolution: In theory and practice
Authors: Rothman Jay 
Published: July 2007

AbstractThis article discusses the use of action‐evaluation in conflict resolution assessment as a way to unite theory and practice, helping all stakeholders articulate and reach their goals. A systematic plan for evaluation can both satisfy evaluative requirements and also significantly enhance program effectiveness. Action‐evaluation, as defined here, is designed to facilitate and merge effective program design, implementation, and monitoring with evaluation. It is supported by user‐friendly research tools, including a computer‐based and interactive goal definition process intended to help project organizers, facilitators, participants, and sometimes funders interactively define their shared goals in order to better achieve them.
Contextual mediation
Authors: Brown Bradley L. 
Published: July 2007

AbstractHow do mediators guide their clients through the maze of emotions surrounding their disagreements to where they can break through their conflict and engage in truly productive communication? In contextual mediation, the mediator first determines the context within which the parties' dispute arose, then works to resolve the conflict underlying the dispute. Once this is done, resolving the dispute becomes much easier, and resolutions that are more likely to be permanent can be reached.
Attribution bias: Challenges, issues, and strategies for mediation
Authors: Ng John , Ang Sophia 
Published: July 2007

AbstractSocial scientists use the term attribution to describe the process of attaching meaning to behavior. In mediation, parties who make attribution seek to take control of the mediation process so that they can gain advantage of the situation. Although attribution theories have enriched the study of social cognitive processes and communication competence, they have not been studied in the context of mediation. Yet these are powerful communication processes that affect parties' movements toward an amicable settlement in mediation. This article presents an overview of issues in the attribution literature that pertain to the study of mediation, discusses three perception biases, and suggests practical remedies.
Developing family mediation standards: An Australian experience
Authors: Bagshaw Dale 
Published: July 2007

AbstractWith the implementation of Parts III and VII of the Family Law Act 1975, as amended in the Family Law Reform Act 1995 (effective in June 1996), there is now increased emphasis on “family and child” mediation for managing and resolving family disputes in Australia, particularly where there are disputes involving children. The author was the founding chairperson of the Family Services Council and took responsibility for coordinating and writing the first national set of family mediation standards for family and child mediators employed by organizations funded by the Attorney‐General's Department of the Commonwealth of Australia. These standards were developed in close consultation with key organizations and mediators in the field. They subsequently influenced some aspects of the new Family Law Regulations (in particular Part V) for mediators operating under the Family Law Act. The Family Mediation Standards discussed in this article cover minimum standards of practice; aspirational standards; and minimum education, training, and supervision requirements for family and child mediators employed by organizations approved by the Federal Attorney‐General under the Family Law Act 1975.
FNA diagnosis of retroperitoneal leiomyosarcoma metastasizing to the breast
Authors: Omeroglu Gulbeyaz , ErsŞahin Çağatay , Potkul Ronald K. , Booth Christine N. 
Published: July 2007

AbstractFine‐needle aspiration (FNA) biopsy is one of the first‐line investigations in any breast lump, and hence cytomorphological recognition of nonmammary metastatic tumors to the breast and their distinction from primary tumors is important. Breast metastasis from extra‐mammary malignancy is rare, constituting 2% of breast tumors; even rarer are mestastatic leiomyosarcomas. Our patient presented with a breast lump 2 years after operative removal of a retroperitoneal leiomyosarcoma. The breast lump was confirmed to be a metastasis from the earlier primary. Herein, we report the first case of a retroperitoneal leiomyosarcoma metastatic to the breast diagnosed by Fine Needle Aspiration. Diagn. Cytopathol. 2007;35:508–511. © 2007 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.