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Rohwer and Skrocki's Contracts in a Nutshell is a succinct summary of the fundamentals of contracts Contains expert coverage on forming contracts, restitution, statute of frauds, contract interpretation, and modification. Also discusses remedies, performance, and third-party beneficiaries..
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Making Mediation Your Day Job is the definitive marketing guide for any mediator operating or even considering a private practice. Dr. Tammy Lenski demonstrates how proven marketing techniques can help you create a mediation practice with minimum stress and maximum success.

Lenski is a full-time mediator who has maintained a thriving practice for more than a decade. She explains in careful detail how mediation concepts—including interests, framing and dialogue-building—can be applied to make you a successful marketer and promote yourself as a flourishing business in this unique and fascinating industry.

In this in-depth and thoughtful guide, Lenski delivers all the steps necessary to build and maintain a successful private practice in mediation, such as how to:

• Choose a market that speaks to your passion
• Uncover and meet your market’s greatest needs and interests
• Build dialogue with potential clients
• Leverage the Internet to expand your networking opportunities

Lenski’s time-tested principles and encouragement will help mediators to embrace marketing with renewed energy, rather than trepidation. It proves that mediators can use their own principles and process knowledge to market their services in an ethical, effective manner.

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This volume introduces the statistical, methodological, and conceptual aspects of mediation analysis. Applications from health, social, and developmental psychology, sociology, communication, exercise science, and epidemiology are emphasized throughout. Single-mediator, multilevel, and longitudinal models are reviewed. The author's goal is to help the reader apply mediation analysis to their own data and understand its limitations.

Each chapter features an overview, numerous worked examples, a summary, and exercises (with answers to the odd numbered questions). The accompanying CD contains outputs described in the book from SAS, SPSS, LISREL, EQS, MPLUS, and CALIS, and a program to simulate the model. The notation used is consistent with existing literature on mediation in psychology.

The book opens with a review of the types of research questions the mediation model addresses. Part II describes the estimation of mediation effects including assumptions, statistical tests, and the construction of confidence limits. Advanced models including mediation in path analysis, longitudinal models, multilevel data, categorical variables, and mediation in the context of moderation are then described. The book closes with a discussion of the limits of mediation analysis, additional approaches to identifying mediating variables, and future directions.

Introduction to Statistical Mediation Analysis is intended for researchers and advanced students in health, social, clinical, and developmental psychology as well as communication, public health, nursing, epidemiology, and sociology. Some exposure to a graduate level research methods or statistics course is assumed. The overview of mediation analysis and the guidelines for conducting a mediation analysis will be appreciated by all readers.

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Anger and confrontation are part of our lives, like it or not. The key factor in happy families is how they handle anger. This book is all about how to deal effectively with anger in families A practical manual of helpful aids to handling the inevitable anger that every family experiences. Helps families work on the changes that will result in less anger, more effective expression of the anger you do experience, and a happier and more harmonious family environment.

Among the dozens of anger topics covered: --How anger develops, why we get angry, and the purposes anger serves in our lives. --Strategies to get anger under control quickly. --How to change your life so you don't get angry so much. --Developing and nurturing encouraging relationships in your life. --How to get along better even when you're angry. --Techniques for problem solving and family meetings. --A tool kit for discipline without anger. --A proven approach to couples' intimate communication, including anger. --Teaching children how to handle their anger with each other, and with adults. --Anger issues related to divorce, single parenting, and stepfamilies. --All-too-common problem of domestic violence..
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The field of mediation has expanded dramatically since Friends Conflict Resolution Programs published the original Mediators Handbook in 1982, the first "how-to" mediation manual available to the public. Since then, mediation has evolved from an alternative approach to conflict resolution for community activists to a process that has become part of our everyday landscape.

Continuously in print for fifteen years, The Mediator's Handbook provides a time-tested, flexible model for effective mediation in diverse environments and situations. Completely revised, the new edition provides a clear overview of mediation and conflict; a section that walks through each step in the mediation process; a large "Toolbox" section that details the skills and approaches used by professional mediators; and a final section that looks at informal mediation. Whether new to the art of mediation or an experienced professional, people working in corporations, government agencies, community organizations, schools, and any other situation where there is a need to build bridges between diverse perspectives will find The Mediators Handbook a valuable resource.

Jennifer E. Beer is the author of the original Mediator's Handbook and helped develop Friends Conflict Resolution Programs' well-known mediation training course. She is the founder of JB Intercultural Consulting. Eileen Stief created FCRP's mediation program and training course 20 years ago. She is now a partner in PennACCORD Associates, a firm specializing in dispute resolution and conflict management. She is co-author of FCRP's School Mediation Trainer's Manual. Friends Conflict Resolution Programs is a program of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and is one of the longest-running mediation programs in the United States..
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Successful management depends on the ability to quickly and effectively manage conflicts. Conflict Resolution includes hands-on information for effectively communicating with employees, disciplining and even terminating employees, understanding and using organizational politics, and more..
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An alarming 88% of Americans cite hostility, desk-rage, and workplace incivility as top concerns. How to Reduce Workplace Conflict and Stress will help executives, supervisors, and managers-and the people that work for them-protect pride, profit and productivity from these disabling emotions. Protect your career and workplace from the hidden costs of workplace tension and hostility. With How to Reduce Workplace Conflict and Stress, you will learn how to:

* Handle the daily onslaught of frustration without losing momentum, mood or confidence. * Avoid the conflict and cynicism that drains profits, resources, and relationships. * Discover why anger makes people irrational, lonely, and depressed and how to quickly calm agitated colleagues and customers. * Experience the fiscal and personal benefits of being "hard on the problem and soft on the people." * Replace bitterness about the past with shared responsibility for the future. * Create a blame-resistant, emotionally resilient workforce.

"This is the insider's guide for navigating the frustrations, irritability, and incivility of organizational life. This book nails the problem and provides a beautiful, ground-breaking solution - one that restores pride and protects profits." - Ken Blanchard, co-author of The One Minute Manager and The One Minute Apology..
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The award-winning first edition of The Promise of Mediation, published ten years ago, is a landmark classic that changed the field's understanding of the theory and practice of conflict intervention. That volume first articulated the "transformative model" of mediation, which greatly humanized the vision of how the mediation process could help parties in conflict. In the past decade, the transformative model has proved itself and gained increasing acceptance. It is now being used in such diverse arenas as workplace, community, family, organizational, and public policy conflicts, among others.

In this new edition, the authors draw on a decade of work in theory development, training, practice, research, and assessment to present a thoroughly revised and updated account of the transformative model of mediation and its practical application, including

• a compelling description of how the field has moved toward increasing acceptance of the transformative model
• a new and clearer presentation of the theory and practices of transformative mediation, with many concrete examples
• a new case study that provides a vivid picture of the model in practice, with a commentary full of new information about how to use it effectively
• clarifications of common misconceptions about the model
• a vision for the future that shows how the model can coexist with other approaches and where the "market" for transformative mediation is emerging

This volume is a foundational resource on transformative practice, for both readers of the first edition and new readers - including mediators, facilitators, lawyers, administrators, human resource professionals, policymakers, and conflict resolution researchers and educators. More generally, this book will strike a chord with anyone interested in humanizing our social institutions and building on a relational vision of society..
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Peacemaking Circles are used in neighborhoods to provide support for those harmed by crime and to decide sentences for those who commit crime, in schools to create positive classroom climates and resolve behavior problems, in the workplace to deal with conflict, and in social services to develop more organic support systems for people struggling to get their lives together. The Circle process hinges on storytelling. It is hard work, but it is an effort bringing astonishing results around the country..
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