Family Dispute Resolution: Process and Practice

Family Dispute Resolution brings together some of the field's leading practitioners, researchers, teachers, and policymakers to share their expertise and experience. This overview of family dispute resolution processes and practices is designed to help professionals who assist separating and divorcing parents make decisions about the future of their families. It is essential reading for legal and mental health professionals in the field and law and graduate students who intend to work with separating and divorcing families.

Peter Salem is the Executive Director of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts. He previously taught mediation at Marquette University Law School and served as director and mediator of Mediation and Family Court Services in Rock County, Wisconsin. He has provided training and consultation to family courts throughout the United States.

Kelly Browe Olson is a Professor and Mediation Clinic Director at the UA Little Rock Bowen School of Law where she teaches mediation, negotiation, family law, and domestic violence courses, and oversees a state-wide Special Education mediation project. She serves on the Arkansas Access to Justice and Parent Counsel Commissions and trains and consults with dependency/neglect mediation programs across the United States.