LITIGATION AND MEDIATION RESEARCH

Some Answers and Questions

Joan B. Kelly 1
 

1 Joan B. Kelly, Ph.D., is Executive Director of the Northern California Mediation Center and past president of the Academy of Family Mediators. She has conducted research and has published extensively in the areas of children's divorce adjustment, mediation, and custody. She is an experienced clinician and mediator, and received the Distinguished Mediator Award from the Academy of Family Mediators in 1993.

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ABSTRACT

A decade of divorce mediation research has focused on outcomes such as settlement rates, cost efficiency, client satisfaction, effect on levels of conflict and cooperation, psychological adjustment, and compliance. Despite methodological problems limiting generalizations, most studies report mildly favorable to very positive findings. Research on the mediation process and mediator behaviors has received very limited attention, and should be the focus of the next decade of research to elevate the mediation field to a more sophisticated, effective level of practice.

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