Professional and Ethical Standards in the Activity of a Mediator

The article presents the experience of the Kemerovo region in creating system for training mediators in the Kuzbass Centre for Psychological and Educational, Medical and Social Care. The authors reveal the genesis and the main conceptual, methodological and technological aspects of the development of a regional model to train mediators for the educational system of Kuzbass. In conceptual and methodological terms, training mediators is based on a restorative approach and a transdisciplinary paradigm of restorative justice. The system of training mediators includes: training the skills of restorative technologies within additional professional educational programs of refresher courses; monthly methodological seminars for mediators and curators of reconciliation services in the region, supervision and intervision sessions for restorative programs’ facilitator; training programs for young volunteer mediators of school reconciliation services. The authors highlight the main risk factors and conditions for the effective work of mediators in difficult school, family and criminal situations, and the possibility of taking risks into account when training mediators and curators of reconciliation services. For the effective training of a mediator – restorative programs’ facilitator, it is important to focus on mastering: the principles of a restorative approach and the procedure of restorative mediation, the position of a mediator, technologies for conducting restorative programs (restorative mediation, community circles, a family conference, a school conference, a school-parent council, preventive restorative programs), skills of restorative communication, legal framework of reconciliation services in Russia. Monitoring data on the activities of the reconciliation services in Kuzbass on the implementation of restorative programs show a good level of training of mediators

Facilitator · Mediation · Medical education · Pedagogy · Professional development · Restorative justice · Sociology · Counseling Practices and Supervision · Medicine · Psychology · Psychology of Development and Education · Social Psychology

• Algorithms for Mediation Restorative Work of the Territorial Reconciliation Service in Difficult Cases

  Open Access•Elena V Belonogova, Е В Белоногова et al.•Journal of Siberian Federal…•2020

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