Course AS 310 · Year III · Summer 2024-2025

CONFLICT MEDIATION

Compulsory course in Social work, taught by Angela Bara.

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Overview

Lecturer
Angela Bara
Seminar tutor
Angela Bara
Type of course
Compulsory
Language of instruction
Romanian
Erasmus language
English
Domain
Social work
Field of study
Social work
Form of education
Full-time
Form of instruction
Class
Credit awarded by
Grade
Teaching methods
Lecture, conversation, exemplification.

Aims

Explain what a conflict really is and how it is formed

Describe different types of conflict that occurs in the workplace

Explain the various consequences of unresolved conflicts.

Explain how to establish a conflict resolution plan.

Describe Positive Communication Techniques that will help eliminate many conflicts from developing.

Course contents

1. Theoretical and practical aspects of the conflict 2. Mediation: dimensions and defining coordinates 3. The ethical paradigm professional mediator and construction 4. Stages of Mediation 5. Mediator skills and self 6. Negotiation and integrative counseling - efficient solutions to conflict mediation

Learning outcomes

• develop learn effective therapeutic communication skills used in human services and counseling; • gains interdisciplinary understanding of short and long term consequences of conflicts. • understand the preconditions for conflict transformation, conflict resolution and peace in local as well as in international and global contexts. • analyze the evolution of the conflicts and conflict resolution and gains knowledge of mediation and negotiation.

Assessment

Written paper –– 60%; project assessment – 40%.

Recommended reading

Conflict Resolution for the Helping Professions
Barsky, A. E.
Brooks/Cole-Wadsworth., Belmont, 2000 · tot
Mediation: Empowerment in Conflict Management. Second Edition
Domenici, Kathy, and Stephen W. Littlejohn
Waveland Press., Prospect Heights, 2001 · tot
Ghid de mediere,
Sustac Zeno, Ignat Claudiu, Danilet Cristi
Ed. Universitara, București, 2010 · tot