The certification movement: Past, present, and future

Gentry, Deborah B.

doi:10.1002/crq.3900110308

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“…Over the years, judiciaries, state legislatures, state-wide regulatory offices, and national mediation organizations have adopted standards of practice and -or standards of ethical conduct (see Milne 1984;Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution 1989;Rogers and McEwen 1994, Chap. 11;Gentry 1994;American Arbitration Association et al 1995;Academy of Family Mediators 1998;Filner 2000: 8-23). The strength of a written standard lies in the description of such core values as neutrality/impartiality or participant self-determination.…”

Section: What Are Our Choices When It Comes To Accountability and Quamentioning

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Supporting Accountability in the Field of Mediation

Herrman

Hollett

Eaker

et al. 2002

Negotiation Journal

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Over time, many fields of work—law, medicine, and teaching—matured from informal bodies of knowledge and skills, passed from one practitioner to another, into professions. In the process each began enumerating and affirming their intellectual and practical roots. Each also began testing practitioners to insure comprehension of relevant knowledge and an ability to demonstrate relevant skills. Family mediators in Canada have moved in this direction. In the United States, people who mediate interpersonal disputes also feel pressured to take additional steps to assure the quality of our work. This article summarizes what mediation organizations in the United States have done and could do to vouch for work in our field. But, taking additional steps calls for a clearer understanding of what a mediator should know and what they are expected to do. These two critical pieces of information remain nebulous. So, this article goes beyond describing ways of insuring accountability by also describing a recently completed job analysis, a tool frequently used in other fields of work to describe the skills and knowledge relevant to a particular job.

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Supporting Accountability in the Field of Mediation

Herrman

Hollett

Eaker

et al. 2002

Negotiation Journal

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Social and occupational profile of mediators in Portugal: Evidence and challenges

Silva,

Guiomar,

Neves

2024

Conflict Resolution Qtrly

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Mediators have gained visibility in the national and international context because of the relevance of their intervention in light of current social challenges. However, the professional profile of mediators is not consolidated, and its recognition has been slow and ambiguous. The diversity of the initial basic training of mediators and the diversity of training available in mediation are two contributing factors to this lack of recognition. The objectives of this article are to characterize the professional profile of Portuguese mediators, to understand their stance regarding the introduction of a bachelor's in mediation in Portuguese higher education, and contribute to the debate about the consolidation and formal recognition of these professionals. Inspired by theoretical and empirical reflections and studies that discuss the possibility of creating a bachelor's in mediation as a strategy to standardize and consolidate mediation and the professional profile of mediators, we present, in this article, a quantitative and qualitative descriptive analysis of the socio‐occupational situation of 175 mediators in Portugal. Most respondents agree that a bachelor's in mediation may contribute to the recognition of the area and the quality of the mediators' work. However, the advantages of multidisciplinary initial basic training and the lack of employability in the area of mediation are two factors that may call into question the relevance of creating this degree. Given the results, it is important to reflect on the nature and modalities of training in mediation, namely at the bachelor level, in order to contribute to the professional recognition of mediators.

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Anhang: Die Ausbildung von Mediatoren — Ergebnisse Einer Empirischen Untersuchung über die Ausbildung von Umweltmediatoren in den USA

Zilleßen¹

1998

Mediation

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The certification movement: Past, present, and future

Cited by 3 publications

References 5 publications

Supporting Accountability in the Field of Mediation

Supporting Accountability in the Field of Mediation

Social and occupational profile of mediators in Portugal: Evidence and challenges

Anhang: Die Ausbildung von Mediatoren — Ergebnisse Einer Empirischen Untersuchung über die Ausbildung von Umweltmediatoren in den USA

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