Assignment:
1. Compare and Contrast the role of an advocate with the role of a mediator. (Barsky, 1993)
2. Identify a client that could use assistance in advocating. Consider the sources of power identified in your reading. What are your client's strengths as a negotiator? What are your client's limitations? As an advocate trying to help the client negotiate on the client's own behalf, what types of interventions would you suggest?
Read Conflict Resolution for the Helping Professions.
Read Elements of Mediation.
Reference
Barsky, A. E. (2007). Conflict resolution for the helping professions (2nd ed.). Belmont, CA: Thomson Learning.
Levition, S. C., & Greenstone, J. L. (1996). Elements of mediation, (1 ed.). Brooks/Cole, a division of Thomson Learning, Inc.