Social workers currently are involved in mediation of divorce and child-custody matters as an alternative to litigation, a mediating process referred to as alternative dispute resolution (ADR). It seems likely that ADR through mediation for cases of domestic violence will be expanded as a social-work practice. It would be a pitfall for social work to stand in lieu of the execution of law without first engaging in the formulation of the concepts and practice models necessary for integrating the very complex legal, economic, political, and cultural manifestations to domestic violence.
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