SOWK 556 - Divorce and Child Custody Mediation

Prerequisite

SOWK 551 (Core Mediation) or equivalent course.

Description

The program begins by presenting an overview of family ADR and the more specific field of divorce and child custody mediation. This intensive combines expert lectures with coached skill building through exercises and role plays. The five day intensive includes informational lectures specific to the knowledge necessary to practice divorce and child custody mediation including family dynamics, children in divorce, mediating parenting plans, working with children in mediation, divorce mediation and the law, assets and property division and special issues such as domestic violence, drug abuse, cultural concerns, and extended family rights.

This course can be applied towards the:

• Mediation Certificate

Textbooks and Materials

Required

• Divorce and Family Mediation: Models, Techniques and Applications (2004)
  Milne J Folberg
  ISBN: 1593850026
  Not available at the CSU Bookstore
• The Handbook of Family Dispute Resolution (2002)
  Taylor, A.
  Not available at the CSU Bookstore

Students are asked to purchase the required textbooks prior to the first class. The books can be bought on Amazon.com or your choice of another bookstore.

Instructors

Holly Panetta

Holly Panetta is an attorney-mediator in Colorado with a practice in Mediation and Child & Family Investigation Services. As a contract mediator through the state Office of Dispute Resolution, Ms. Panetta mediates more than 200 court-ordered cases per year including divorce, child custody and dependency and neglect matters. Ms. Panetta recently joined the Institute for Advanced Dispute Resolution (IADR) as a faculty member teaching mediation courses through Colorado State University and Colorado Tech University.

Ms. Panetta attended law school at the University of Denver and received her Juris Doctor in 2003. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from Colorado State University. Ms. Panetta is also currently working toward a Master’s in Human Development and Family Studies at Colorado State University.