Family mediation

Mediation: A Family Therapy Technique?

Family mediation dovetails with family therapy approaches, in particular the brief, solution-based family therapies, such that these two intervention approaches may be considered quite similar. Is it OK for mediators to employ therapeutic methods and methodologies? Is this still mediation or something else? This article explores these issues, examining and comparing mediation and therapy approa...

A Case for Mediation : The Cost - Effectiveness of Civil , Family , and Workplace Mediation

Software Developed for Use in Family Mediation - AssetDivider

This article describes research into software that supports Family Law mediation. Most divorcing couples enter into mediation to resolve the decisions in who is allocated items from the common pool of assets. AssetDivider supports this task by asking parties to assign ratings to the items in question. The software takes this information and from it develops a list of allocations to each party. ...

Efficacy of family mediation and the role of family violence: study protocol

BACKGROUND Family law reforms in Australia require separated parents in dispute to attempt mandatory family dispute resolution (FDR) in community-based family services before court attendance. However, there are concerns about such services when clients present with a history of high conflict and family violence. This study protocol describes a longitudinal study of couples presenting for famil...

mediation: R Package for Causal Mediation Analysis

In this paper, we describe the R package mediation for conducting causal mediation analysis in applied empirical research. In many scientific disciplines, the goal of researchers is not only estimating causal effects of a treatment but also understanding the process in which the treatment causally affects the outcome. Causal mediation analysis is frequently used to assess potential causal mecha...