Argues that, properly understood, divorce mediation represents a rejection of a legal model of divorce and a substitution of a mental health model, and shows how such a model would be applied to the disputes between separating and divorcing couples. (Author/MCF)

Twenty-eight articles focusing on non-adversarial approaches to resolving family disputes without formal court procedures are collected in this manual. The 16 articles in the first chapter discuss aspects of divorce mediation. These are followed by six papers in the second chapter on the mediation of family conflicts involving domestic violence…