— Live session/role play times: 6:30 – 8:30 PM EDT/EST, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays (mandatory).– A rewarding and fulfilling career helping separated couples reach settlements and chart a better future for themselves and their children lies ahead for those who take part in our field-leading, cutting-edge Family Mediation course. The Introduction to Family Mediation training course delivers the foundation to work in a variety of settings where you will learn to provide family dispute resolution services and interventions for families experiencing relationship conflict and going through the process of separation. The course will equip students with the knowledge and skills to mediate family disputes by understanding the fundamentals of family dispute resolution. Topics covered focus on family mediation in practice and cover Screening Clients for Mediation, Strategies for Family Mediation and Steps in the Family Mediation Model, and the separation of Finances and Property. You will practice applying your family dispute resolution skills in a safe and professional online learning environment, learn to facilitate a family mediation and will examine and apply an ethical framework to your mediation using codes of practice and standards. Required textbook: Art and Practice of Mediation, 2nd Edition & Choices in Approaching Conflict: Understanding the Practice of Alternative Dispute Resolution Book Bundle – $113 – $168 (digital or print), The Family Dispute Resolution Handbook, 6th Edition – $125-145 (digital or print)

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