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Conflict Resolution in Healthcare

by Kathy Clark & Ruth Rickard Our primary focus in this chapter is conflict resolution in healthcare.  In particular, we look closely at non-adversarial responses[…]

Expanding Dispute Resolution: Design & Use of Anticipatory and Preventative Processes

by Kimberlee Kovach For many, it appears that dispute resolution methods, particularly mediation and arbitration, have greatly increased in use. However, others have questioned whether[…]

Opinion 675

QUESTIONS PRESENTED May a Texas lawyer, acting as a mediator, prepare and provide the parties to the mediation a proposed written agreement that memorializes the[…]

Where Do We Go Next?

by John DeGroote, Immediate Past Chair Why are we all here, anyway? That’s a question that’s good to ask ourselves every so often, and I[…]

Ethical Puzzler

by Suzanne M. Duvall Question: May a case worker for Family Court Services participate in and/or assist in the mediation of a case to which[…]

It’s a Matter of Trust

Billy Joel sings It’s a Matter of Trust and doesn’t that apply to almost everything we do as mediators? Some attend advanced mediator trainings to[…]

Colloquy with John DeGroote

From growing up on a horse farm near Pascagoula, Mississippi, to owning his own mediation and arbitration practice in the trendy area of Dallas known[…]

Traditional Family Law Mediation

by Michael P. O’Reilly. The biggest difference between family law cases and other types of mediations is the parties’ need to vent and tell their[…]

New Frontiers: Early Collaborative (Team) Mediation

by Stacey H. Langenbahn, J.D. & Linda Miller-deBerard. There are a growing number of divorcing couples, unmarried parents, or already divorced parents who want to[…]

Parenting Coordination, Parenting Facilitation, and (sometimes) Family Counseling

by Aaron Robb, Ph.D. Research shows that post-divorce parental conflict is the strongest predictor of maladjustment
in children. For parents who continue to experience anger, distrust,[…]