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Lowballing the Public: Mediators serving without a binding ethics code on 40 hours of training
Posted on Sep 13 2014 under Community Mediation, Previous Programs | Tags: California State University, Concord Law School, Conflict Connections Inc, Dr. Jack R. Goetz, Ethics Code, graduate student, Interpersonal-Organizational Communication, Lowballing, Maryland Program for Mediator Excellence, mediation, Mediation Program, Mediator Education, Negotiation and Conflict Managment, Organization Conflict, Pattie Porter, Professional Speaker, Professionalism, Quality Testing, Southern California Mediation Association, The Texas Conflict Coach, Tracy Culbreath, Trainer, training, University of Baltimore, University of Central Florida, Voluntary Mediator Certification
The practice of mediation is largely unregulated throughout the United States. In contrast to more formalized professions, such as nursing, social work, law, medicine or accounting, mediators generally have a fraction of the training, have no required ethics code, and no minimum quality testing. Dr. Goetz will chronicle current efforts in voluntary mediator certification underway in California to raise the level of mediator education and training and require a binding ethics code to serve the public.
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