Winter 2017
Using Family Mediators for Interventions
By Patricjk Bailey | If you need to conduct an intervention because of a family member’s addiction, having a family mediator manage the process can foster understanding and resolve pressing issues.
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Webinar: Asking Good Questions with Michael Lang
“Asking Good Questions,” an APFM webinar on improving outcomes in family mediation by asking questions, featuring Michael Lang.
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APFM: The Dream, Progress to Date, and New Goals
By Virginia Colin | APFM was created with almost impossible dreams. How much progress have we made? What great things might we do in the future? The President of APFM reports that we have built a strong foundation.
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Beyond Settlement: Fifty Shades of Satisfaction with Michael Lang
“Beyond Settlement: Fifty Shades of Satisfaction,” an APFM webinar on managing client satisfaction featuring Michael Lang. Recorded Sept. 25, 2018.
Tips for Talking to Your Kids About Divorce
By Christina McGhee | Kids need reassuring but honest information about how their lives will be changing. Talk with your children in a direct way, using clear language.
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The Scope and Potential of Professional Family Mediation
By Larry Gaughan | It is time to recreate the excitement of the 1980’s and move family mediation toward recognition as a fully established, separate, credentialed profession.
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Co-Parenting Well Through the Teen Years
By Lisa Gabardi | On the road to becoming responsible, respectful adults, teens benefit from having parents who stay involved, share information, and coordinate plans and rules. Opportunities to manipulate and deceive parents decrease when divorced parents keep each other well informed about their teenagers.
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It’s High Time to Draft All Divorce Agreements In 21st Century English
By Larry Gaughan | An impassioned plea for writing divorce agreements in language the parties can easily understand, instead of using antiquated form-books.
read moreToward a Unified Profession of Family Mediation
By Steve Erickson | Professional family mediators need both process skills and substantive knowledge about child development, parenting, family law, budgeting, and more.
read moreThe Creative Solution
By Chip Rose | How a mediation proceeds and how it ends depend on how it begins. Beginning with macro questions the clients can say yes to gets them off to a good start.
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