This will cover the identification of family violence, skills in how to ask the difficult questions and what this means for the client’s capacity to negotiate. It will also address how to tailor the negotiation process to maximise suitability and how to manage the clients’ participation in the process. Some dilemmas that involve impartiality and neutrality, whilst maintaining the best interests of children in parenting matters will be discussed.
Family violence can be a difficult subject to discuss with clients in any service. Within a dispute resolution context, it is particularly important to ask questions to identify family violence. Family violence changes the power balance of the negotiation process and impacts upon clients’ capacity and suitability to undertake the FDR process.
Participants will gain increased skills in:
FDR Practitioners, mediators, lawyers and people working with separated families.
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