With the recent proliferation of graduate and postgraduate programs aimed at training professionals to practice dispute resolution as an alternative to court, this book remains relevant and an important source for educating aspiring students to work in this challenging and rewarding field of practice. Dr. Barsky is well suited for this task as a renowned scholar, expert in the field of conflict resolution, clinician, and educator. * Family Court Review * This book is an engaging, insightful, and invigorating treatise offering a broad array of teaching and learning resources for educators and practitioners in multiple disciplines... As Barsky rightly explains in the preface to his book, the field of conflict resolution today has evolved and expanded to a wide range of professional contexts locally and internationally. Given the current pervasive climate of complex conflict situations throughout life, escalated by
trauma, incomprehensible violence, negative peace, and a fight for resources, the search and effort for positive peace is consciously growing at multiple levels. Especially for those of us in the human service professions, this book offers a renewed focus and an incentive to craft interventions toward
positive peace using what it has to offer. * Journal of Baccalaureate Social Work * In [the book], [Barsky] offers a comprehensive, in-depth application of the theory and practice of conflict resolution to the work of helping professionals. Barsky travels both deeply and widely in this work... * Journal of Teaching in Social Work * With the third edition, Dr. Barsky has provided essential updates in mindfulness, restorative justice, and online dispute resolution while still maintaining the core of negotiation and mediation theories and their application to practice. Social workers, mental health counselors, marriage and family therapists, psychologists and pastoral counselors will find Conflict Resolution for the Helping Professions both an invaluable antidote and a practice guidebook
to helping professionals transform conflict in their clinical and administrative practice from crisis to opportunity * Mitch Rosenwald, PhD, LCSW, Professor and Interim PhD Program Director, School of Social Work, Barry University * Conflict Resolution for the Helping Professions provides both students and conflict resolution practitioners with a clear, concise guide to understanding, assessing and addressing conflict across professional domains. Allan Barsky blends a broad survey of scholarly research with a wide variety of practical applications drawn from today's headlines, all the while expertly modeling the language and communication skills so needed by helping professionals. As a
practitioner, I found the exercises at the end of each section to be thought-provoking and challenging. I highly recommend this interesting, informative, and useful text."

- Rick Lewis, MPS, Specialist, School Climate Initiatives, School District of Palm Beach County, FL