The subject Mediation and Social Work offers fourth-year undergraduate students a space to understand the professional position of social work mediation, reflecting on epistemological approaches. Students will also be able to acquire basic competences in mediation skills in the spaces and areas closest to social work: family, school, community, criminal and penitentiary. The aim is to strengthen the professional role of mediator in conjunction with other professional roles in social work. Being a subject of Module F: Elective, and belonging to the last subject of the Minor in Intervention and Conflict Transformation, students will have the opportunity to integrate previous competences of the previous subjects taken in third year, for the construction of their professional role as mediator.

1. Understand the relationship between mediation and social work (CM01).

2. Use mediation as a social intervention strategy aimed at alternative conflict resolution (CM 01).

3. Acquire basic mediation skills in the intervention aimed at the peaceful management of conflicts (CM 01).

4. Acquire basic practical skills in restorative justice (CM 04).

5. Know and understand the most important areas and contexts of development of mediation for Social Work (CM04).

6. Know and understand the ethical and legal limits of mediation (CM01 CM 09).

7. Acquire knowledge for the elaboration of a technical proposal for social intervention and mediation (CM08, CM10, CM09).

THEORETICAL CONTENTS

1. Mediation

- Conflict and mediation.

- Epistemology of mediation.

- Brief history of mediation and its professionalisation.

2. Mediation as an intervention tool in social work.

- Mediation and social work: couple in construction.

- Mediation and social intervention.

3. Mediation in family conflicts.

- Divorce and separation processes.

- Intra-family conflicts.

- Law 1/2008 on Family Mediation.

- Law 7/2015 on family relations in cases of separation or break-up of parents.

4. Mediation in the school context.

- School coexistence programmes.

- School mediation.

5. Mediation in the community context.

- Coexistence in the community.

- Citizen participation vs. professional community mediation.

6. Restorative justice in the penal and penitentiary context.

- Processes of accountability of offenders.

- The recovery of the protagonism of the victims.

- Mediation in criminal matters and restorative processes.

7. Other contexts of mediation intervention.

- Intercultural, health, environmental, organisational, university, police, etc.

8. Legislation and ethics of mediation.

- Law 5/2012 on mediation in civil and commercial matters.

- Ethical limits and code of ethics.



PRACTICAL CONTENT

1.Simulation exercises of mediation and restorative processes.

- Basic skills and techniques for school, family and community mediation: putting them into practice.

- Basic skills and techniques in restorative justice: putting them into practice.

2 Elaboration of the technical proposal for social and mediating intervention.

- Analysis of conflictive social reality and elaboration of the proposal.

- Oral presentation of the proposal.



This syllabus has been approved by ANECA.

- Lectures.

- Flexible classes and collaborative learning.

- Classroom practice (mediation simulation exercises and restorative processes).

- Autonomous and cooperative student work.

- Discussion groups on the readings

- Circles of dialogue

• Continuous Assessment System
• Final Assessment System
• Tools and qualification percentages:
  • Realization of Practical Work (exercises, cases or problems) (%): 30
  • Individual works (%): 50
  • Technical proposal for social and mediation/restorative intervention (%): 20

CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT (class attendance required, 80%)

- Individual work.

- Self-assessment of classroom participation

- Group tests ( simulation exercises on mediation and restorative processes. Technical proposal for social and mediatory/restorative intervention).

- It will be essential to pass the different tests in order to obtain the final mark.



FINAL EVALUATION

- Theoretical-practical written test (100%) according to the syllabus and the bibliography included in it.



"In any case, students will have the right to be assessed through the final assessment system, regardless of whether or not they have participated in the continuous assessment system. To do so, students must submit a written opt.out from continuous assessment to the lecturer responsible for the subject, for which they will have a period of 9 weeks for four-monthly subjects and 18 weeks for annual subjects, starting from the beginning of the four-month period or academic year respectively, in accordance with the academic calendar of the centre. The teaching guide for the subject may establish a longer period" (art. 8.3.).



OPTING OUT OF THE SITTING

"In the case of continuous assessment, if the weight of the test is greater than 40% of the grade for the subject, it will be sufficient not to take the final test for the final grade to be show or no-show. Otherwise, if the weight of the final exam is equal to or less than 40% of the grade for the subject, students may opt out from the exam within a period of at least one month before the end of the teaching period for the corresponding subject. This opt-out must be submitted in writing to the lecturer responsible for the subject" (12.2 art.).



In the case of a final assessment: "failure to take the test set on the official examination date shall entail automatic withdrawal from the corresponding examination" (art. 12.3).

It consists of a final written theoretical-practical test (100%), based on the syllabus of the programme and the bibliography included in it.

In order to opt out this exam, it is sufficient not to take the exam.

Materials uploaded to the egela virtual platform.

CONSEJO DE EUROPA (2018). Recomendación CM/Rec (2018)8 del Comité de ministros a los Estados miembros en materia de justicia restaurativa penal. Consejo de Europa.
CONSEJO GENERAL DEL TRABAJO SOCIAL.(2015). Trabajo social y mediación. Madrid: Consejo General de Trabajo Social.
FAGET, Jacques. (2005). La mediación comunitaria en Europa. Primeras Jornadas de Mediación Comunitaria y Cultura de Paz de Getxo. Ayuntamiento de Getxo.
GEUZ. (2013). Cómo poner en marcha, paso a paso, una programa de mediación escolar entre compañeros/as. Departamento de Justicia y Administración Pública del Gobierno Vasco.
LEDERACH, John Paul. (1996). Documento nº8 Mediación. Gernika. Gernika Gogoratuz.
MUNUERA GÓMEZ, Pilar. (2012). Conflicto, mediación y trabajo social. En FOMBUENA VALERO, Josefa (coord.): El trabajo social y sus instrumentos: elementos para una intervención a piacere (pp. 171-190). Valencia: Nau llibres.
OLALDE, Alberto José. (2010). Mediación y justicia restaurativa: Innovaciones metodológicas del trabajo social en la jurisdicción penal. Miscelánea Comillas: Revista De Teología y Ciencias Humanas 68 (133): 761-90.
OLALDE, Alberto José.(2012). Mediación y trabajo social: Una pareja en construcción. V Jornada de trabajo social : ¿mediamos o sustituimos?: Gizarte langintzako V jardunaldia: Bitartekari edo ordezkari, hori gakoa.53-70.Universidad del País Vasco, Servicio de Publicaciones.
ORTEGA, Rosario, y DEL REY, Rosario (2006). La mediación escolar en el marco de la construcción de la convivencia y la prevención de la violencia. Avances en supervisión educativa: Revista de la Asociación de Inspectores de Educación de España.
RONDÓN GARCÍA, Luis Miguel, y MUNUERA GÓMEZ, Pilar. (2009). Mediación familiar: Un espacio de intervención para trabajadores sociales. Trabajo Social ( Universidad Nacional De Colombia ), (11), 25-41.
SERVICIO DE MEDIACIÓN FAMILIAR DEL GOBIERNO VASCO. Memoria 2020. Gobierno Vasco.

Basic bibliography

BOQUE, María Carme.(2002). Guía de mediación escolar. Barcelona. Rosa Sensat.

HAYNES John.M. (1995). Fundamentos de mediación Familiar.Madrid: Gaia

MOORE, Christopher. (1995).El proceso de mediación. Métodos prácticos para la resolución de conflictos". Barcelona. Ed. Granica.

MUNUERA GÓMEZ, Pilar. (2014). Nuevos retos en mediación. Valencia: Tirant Humanidades.

NEUMAN, Elías. (1997).¿Mediación y conciliación penal?. Buenos Aires: Ediciones Depalma.

OLALDE ALTAREJOS, Alberto José .(2017). 40 ideas para la práctica de la justicia restaurativa en la jurisdicción penal. Madrid: Dykinson.

PARKINSON, LISA. (2005). Mediación familiar. Madrid: Editorial Gedisa

POYATOS GARCÍA Ana. (Coord.). 2003). Mediación familiar y social en diferentes contextos. Valencia: Nau Llibres.

PUNTES, Salvador. Y MUNNÉ, María. (relatores).(2005). Los servicios de mediación comunitaria. Propuestas de actuación.Barcelona: Diputación de Barcelona

PUNTES, Salvador. (2007). La mediación comunitaria. Ciudadanos, derechos y conflictos. Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá. Fundación Universitaria empresarial de la Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá.

RAMOS CECILIA. (2003). Un mirar, un decir, un sentir en la mediación educativa. Colección Visión Compartida, Librería Histórica.

RIPOL-MILLET, Aleix.(2001) Familias, Trabajo Social y Mediación. Barcelona: Paidos.

SOLETO, Helena, y OTERO, Milagros Maria. (2007). Mediación y solución de conflictos habilidades para una necesidad emergente. Madrid: Tecnos.

In-depth bibliography

CASANOVAS, Pompeu, MAGRE, Jaume y LAUROBA, María Elena. (2011). Libro Blanco de la mediación en Cataluña. Barcelona: Departament de Justícia. Generalitat de Catalunya.
FARRÉ i SALVÀ, Sergi. 2004. Gestión de conflictos: Taller de mediación: Un enfoque socioafectivo. Madrid: Ariel.
IGARTUA, Idoia, VARONA, Gema y OLALDE Alberto José. (2012) Diccionario breve de justicia restaurativa: una invitación interdisciplinar e introductoria a sus conceptos clave.Saarbrücken, Alemania: Editorial Académica Española.
RONDÓN GARCÍA, Luis Miguel (2012). Bases para la mediación familiar. Valencia: Tirant Lo Blanch.
OLALDE ALTAREJOS, Alberto Jose (2020). Justicia restaurativa y victimizaciones a menores en su sexualidad en el seno de la iglesia católica española: Reflexiones inacabadas desde una práctica incipiente. Revista de Victimología, (10), 119-152.
Olalde Altarejos, A. J. (2022). Necesito verte como un vecino más: diálogo restaurativo de dimensión comunitaria entre un ex-preso de ETA y su vecino. In G. Varona Martínez (Ed.), Resiliencia y crecimiento postraumático individual y social (pp. 305-320). Barcelona: Huygens.

Journals

- Conflictology.
- Conflict Resolution Quarterly
- International Journal of Conflict and violence.
- Journal for the Study of Peace and Conflict
- Peace Conflict Development. An interdisciplinary Journal.
- Revista de Mediación (AMM)
- Revista Mediatio (Sevilla)
- Rivista Italiana di Conflittologia
- The International Journal of Restorative Justice

Web addresses

http://www.poderjudicial.es/cgpj/es/Temas/Mediacion
http://www.asociacionhablamos.es
http://www.ammediadores.es
http://www.mediacionypacificacion.es/index.php
https://www.ucm.es/imedia
http://www.acuerdojusto.com
http://mediacionesjusticia.com
http://acdmasocialnetwork.ning.com/
http://www.aditze.com
http://agoraberri.blogspot.com/
http://www.baketik.org
https://www.euskadi.eus/mediacion-familiar/web01-a2famil/es/
http://www.bitarbask.org
http://www.egintza.com
http://www.fundaciongizagune.net
http://www.garrebil.com
https://www.justizia.eus/servicio-justicia-restaurativa