Conflict Resolution for the Helping Professions: Negotiation, Mediation, Advocacy, Facilitation, and Restorative Justice

Conflict Resolution for the Helping Professions provides practitioners with the theory, strategies, and skills they need in order to respond effectively to conflict with clients, coworkers, supervisors, or others. This hands-on textbook provides practical information, case illustrations, and experiential exercises to demonstrate how conflict resolution may be applied in criminal justice, mental health, health, education, family disputes, cross-cultural conflict, and other contexts of practice.


About the Author
Allan Edward Barsky, PhD, JD, MSW, is Professor of Social Work at Florida Atlantic University. Dr. Barsky currently teaches conflict resolution at the Florida Atlantic University School of Social Work. He has presented his work in conferences and trainings in the United Kingdom, Israel, Finland, Canada, Netherlands, and across the United States. Dr. Barsky served on the national board of Family Mediation Canada and has chaired the National Ethics Committee of the National Association of Social Workers. Dr. Barsky is a certified family mediator with the Supreme Court of Florida and has extensive experience advocating for many social justice issues.