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Divorce Mediation
Divorce Mediation is a rapidly growing field which emphasizes principles of conflict resolution. It provides couples who wish to separate a more productive method of negotiation in order to help them create their separation agreement. Mediators act as neutral third parties who help facilitate this process by assisting the couple with their negotiation and by providing them with pertinent information about their choices. Mediation helps couples to reach agreement in a more constructive atmosphere that emphasizes cooperation, communication, and compromise. It is less stressful, less aggravating, less contentious, and a lot less expensive than the traditional adversarial process. Mediation seeks to help people reach win-win solutions so that they can get on with their life, not with their litigation.
When conducting divorce mediation, Alan Frankel, L.C.S.W. co-mediates with attorney-mediator Jill Sanders-DeMott, J.D. Team mediation offers couples the benefit of having mediators with both psychological and legal professional backgrounds. Additionally, it provides a balanced male-female professional team that offers a sense of gender fairness which couples really appreciate.
Mediation is especially important when children are involved. It sets up a framework for ongoing cooperation and open communication between parents, which is necessary for the children's well-being. During mediation the parents are encouraged to separate their spousal role, which is ending, from their parenting role, which is continuing.
Both Al Frankel, L.C.S.W. and Jill Sanders-DeMott, J.D. are Accredited Members of The New York State Council on Divorce Mediation and serve on its board of directors. Both are also Advanced Practitioner Members of The Association of Conflict Resolution.
Biography
Alan L. Frankel, L.C.S.W. is a clinical social worker/psychotherapist and a divorce mediator. He maintains a private practice in Mt. Kisco, NY (Westchester County), and has thirty years of clinical experience working with a wide array of people and problems. He is a psychotherapist who works with children, adolescents, and adults, and specializes in helping children and families undergoing the difficult transition of a separation or divorce. He provides individual adult psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, child and adolescent therapy, and marriage counseling. In addition, Al provides divorce consultation for couples in the early stages of considering a separation or divorce, and is a family and divorce mediator. When conducting divorce mediation, he co-mediates with attorney-mediator Jill Sanders-DeMott, J.D. He is also an adjunct professor in The Human Services Dept. at Westchester Community College, where he has been teaching courses in Human Behavior and Social Development since 1992.
Alan graduated from Cornell University in 1976. He earned his Masters in Social Work from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978. Al was trained in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy at The Institute For Contemporary Psychotherapy in NYC in 1986. He received additional postgraduate training at the Institute in child and adolescent therapy, as well as in couples and family therapy. In 1991, he went on to receive training in divorce mediation at The Center for Family and Divorce Mediation in NYC.
He is an Accredited Member of The NY State Council on Divorce Mediation, where he serves on the Board of Directors. He is also an Advanced Practitioner Member of The Association of Conflict Resolution (formerly The Academy of Family Mediators), and a Fellow Member of The NY State Society for Clinical Social Work. He has written and lectured widely on the topics of the impact of divorce on children and families, and on divorce mediation.
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