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Evaluative mediation: In search of practice competencies
Author(s) -
Della Noce Dorothy J.
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
conflict resolution quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.323
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1541-1508
pISSN - 1536-5581
DOI - 10.1002/crq.255
Subject(s) - mediation , economic shortage , subject (documents) , psychology , quality (philosophy) , empirical research , social psychology , engineering ethics , epistemology , political science , computer science , law , engineering , linguistics , philosophy , government (linguistics) , library science
Although there is no shortage of literature on why mediators should be allowed to give evaluations and why parties in dispute allegedly want and need evaluations, there is a relative lack of empirical literature on the subject of what exactly qualifies as competent evaluative mediation practice. The author reviews existing literature to formulate a description of the behaviors that would be considered competent in evaluative mediation practice, and to open a discussion of the implications of these findings for such contemporary fieldwide conversations as defining quality mediation, establishing performance‐based competency standards, distinguishing among approaches to practice, and exploring the relationship between underlying values and practice approaches.