|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
What's Happening at the Center
Conflict Resolution Services
Request for Mediation
Request for Mandated Mediation
Academic Programs
Request Academic Information
Calendar
Resources
Links
Articles About Mediation
Mediation Career Articles
Student Spotlights
Book the Duncum Center
Contact
|
Syllabus Psychology 609.01 Spring, 2006 Professor: Patty Strader Wenetschlaeger, JD Attorney, Counselor at Law, and Mediator Brewer Anthony Middlebrook Adjunct Professor Department of Psychology 972-870-9898 pwenetschlaeger@bamlawyers.net
Course meeting dates: March 9-11; March 30-April 1, 2006 Audience and Prerequisites Audience: This course is intended for advanced students of conflict resolution in the Graduate Certificate in Conflict Resolution and other fields. The course assumes that students have good interpersonal interaction skills as well as essential negotiation and mediation knowledge and skills. The student should be aware that any deficit in these areas could significantly affect the student’s grade. Prerequisites: Students must have taken PSYC 605: Negotiation: Principles and Practice and PSYC 606: Mediation: Principles and Practice before taking this course. Course Content: Catalogue Description: Advanced Mediation: Mediating Marital Conflict applies the concepts of negotiation and mediation to the resolution of conflicts which arise during and after the termination of a marital relationship. Synopsis of Course: Mediating Marital Conflict applies the concepts of negotiation and mediation to the resolution of conflicts which arise during and after the termination of a marital relationship. This course provides to the mediator an in-depth background on the termination of marriage and provides analytic and interpersonal skills with which to help clients end their marriage in a manner which preserves their spiritual, parenting, and financial relationships and fosters responsible decision-making in these areas. The course builds on the analytic and interpersonal skills learned in the negotiation and mediation courses and applies the concepts and skills of those courses to terminal marital conflict situations. This course in Mediating Marital Conflict is not a course in marital counseling. The course assumes that clients have made the decision to end their marriage. Students who are interested in courses in marital or relationship counseling are encouraged to explore the extensive offerings of the university in the Department of Marriage and Family Therapy, the Graduate School of Theology, the Department of Psychology and/or the Department of Sociology and Social Work. Students should note that this is an introduction to the issues and complexities of marital mediation. Students should expect that additional training and supervised practice will be necessary for the capable practice of mediation with families. Course Outline: The course has the following main sections. I. Marital Conflict and Divorce II. Marital Mediation Concepts III. The Mediator’s Work in Marital Mediation IV. Professional Issues in Marital Mediation V. Issues and Family Law in Marital Mediation VI. Marital Mediation: Thinking Theologically Teaching and Learning Format: Marital Mediation develops the student’s knowledge, analytic ability, and intervention skills to help families resolve conflicts. Students will use the “meditation process-phases” as an analytic tool to design, implement, and evaluate marital mediation. Significant amounts of student preparation and class time are devoted to mediation simulation exercises to build the student’s analytic and interpersonal mediation skills. Class sessions will be used for lectures, class discussion, group exercises, and simulations. Textbooks and Other Resources: Folberg, J., Milne, A.L. & Salem, P. (2004). Divorce and Family Mediation. Additional article and handouts will be assigned in class. Students will find helpful information at the following web sites: www.mediate.com and www.CRInfo.org Evaluation There are several types of assignments. The table below describes the assessment and evaluation of work in this course. Detailed expectations for the assignments will be provided in class; the following is a list of the assignments with a brief description of each. 1. Simulation development or article summaries. Detailed guidance will be provided in class. 2. Simulation demonstrations are the live enactments with other participants of specific mediation situations. The simulation may focus on a specific skill or may be open-ended, covering a range of emergent opportunities to practice various skills. 3. Mediator briefs are written presentation of the facts, issues, decision, interventions, and evaluation or a specific mediation scenario. 4. A reflection paper is a 250 to 500 word paper written in response to a class activity, reading, or other learning experience. 5. A synthesis paper is designed to integrate principles and concepts from diverse sources and perspectives into a coherent description or position. 6. Oral presentations are prepared in advance with an accompanying text and are presented with attention to the quality of oral communication. Evaluation is guided by these principles: 1. All work should be of “professional workplace quality.” 2. Christian, academic, and professional ethical standards will be upheld. In addition to the ACU Academic Integrity Policy, there are some additional expectations in this course. · First, because of the participatory nature of this class, each student is dependent upon other students to do their work in order for each student to gain the greatest value from the course. Failing to be prepared for a simulation, case study, or other collaborative activity is an academic integrity issue and will be dealt with as such. Any student’s failure to be prepared robs fellow students of the time and money they have invested in the course. After one warning for such failure, a student is subject to being dropped from the course or being barred from participation in future collaborative activities. Each of these outcomes will be reflected in the student’s grade. · All work that is presented for this course is done “new” for this course. Assignments · Attendance and participation in all class meetings and activities; satisfactory participation in simulation demonstrations · A mediation brief reflecting preparation, mediation, and reflection on “lessons learned” on an in-class mediation simulation. The audience for this brief is peers and supervisors in a professional mediation setting. This is a writing assignment of 750 words. This mediation brief is due on Thursday of the second weekend. · Achieve a grade of 80% or higher on the “essentials exam.” The essentials exam will be on Friday morning of the second weekend. · Simulation Development- to be discussed in class. · Oral presentation of 15 minutes in length prepared for an audience you select on the topic “Divorce Mediation: Who, What, When, Why?” This presentation should be appropriate in all respects for the chosen audience. The presentation should be accompanied by a prepared narrative text and visual aids and handouts for the audience. Powerpoint® may be used to prepare the materials, but a computer-projector may not be used in the presentation. This presentation will be made in class on the evening of the second Thursday class meeting. · A second mediation brief reflecting preparation, mediation, and reflection on “lessons learned” in an in-class mediation simulation. The audience for this brief is peers and supervisors in a professional mediation setting. This is a writing assignment of 750 words. This mediation brief is due at the end of the semester on a date to be announced. · Two reflection papers of 250 words each responding to reading or class activities. The papers will be assigned in class and will be due at the time announced with the assignment. · Reading summaries of five assigned articles or development of a simulation. · A synthesis paper of 1250 words on a topic selected by the student and approved by the professor. This synthesis paper is due at the end of the semester on a date of be announced. · Inventory and Appraisement, due the first Friday class meeting; Parenting Plan, due the second Friday class meeting. · A mediation brief (500-750 words) describing the student’s strengths and areas for improvement and a plan for achieving the desired improvements. This mediation brief is due at the end of the semester on a date to be announced. Course Calendar
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
