Elder Care Mediation Training | Manousso Mediation & Arbitration-Affordable Dispute Resolution (ADR)

Become a Professional Mediator – Headquartered in Houston, Texas, USA, since 1993

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Click here for tuition and special discounts, like our early bird and active college student discounts. Or call, Dr. Barbara Manousso at 713/557-1010. Email is mediation@Manousso.us

ZOOM live: Our trainings are interactive/real time ZOOM training and fun online. Call us at (713)557-1010 text/talk!

Since 1993, we have offered the best in the world-wide mediation training with applauded ADR leadership. Our lecturers are active mediators and arbitrators, ADR leaders, practitioners, academics, theorists, and authors with quality credentials and admired professional standing. The staff of Manousso Mediation and Arbitration, LLC: Solution2Conflict are actively engaged worldwide.

Have you listened to Manousso Musing on PodCasts or YouTube? Meet the Titans of Mediation with Dr. Manousso.

Before you register for any training, make sure that your trainers meet the qualifications for, and are members of, professional mediation organizations, such as the Texas Association of Mediators, Texas Mediators Trainers Round Table (TMTR) and the Texas Credentialing Association, or you won’t be getting a quality training. Your trainers must be actively involved in practice and professional development!

Manousso Mediation and Arbitration, LLC. is an accredited sponsor of continuing education credits (CEU), approved by the State Bar of Texas, Committee on MCLE, as well as other professional organizations, such as CEU for CPA, LPC, and HR.

We are proud members of and trainers for the Houston Area Better Business Bureau and many other consumer groups and international panels.

Arbitration Training ONLINE with ZOOM: live and interactive.

($550.00) Ask about special discounts.

Earn MCLE/CEU 10 and 4 in ethics for JD, CPA, LPC, SW, HR on Friday, 13 September 2024, from 9:00 AM until 5:30 PM, plus writing a short opinion/decision that will be explained in class and a meet up on Tuesday, 17 September, from 7 PM until 8 PM.

Basic Mediation Training ZOOM LIVE and INTERACTIVE. 40 hours.

($975) Ask about special discounts.

Earn MCLE/CEU 40 and 4 in ethics for JD, CPA, LPC, SW, HR, includes Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR training), handouts, and notebooks:

Our next fabulous basic mediation training class will be Wednesday to Friday, January 8, 9, 10, 2025, and then the next week on Tuesday and Wednesday, January 14th and 15th, 2025, from 10 AM to 6:30 PM daily.

All classes will be ZOOM live and interactive. Students must be ON CAMERA and attentive for the whole program for certificate and MCLE/CEU affirmative.

Advanced Mediation: Family-Divorce-Child Custody training live, interactive, on ZOOM. 30 hours.

($895) Ask about special discounts.

Earn MCLE/CEU 30 and 4 in ethics for JD, CPA, LPC, SW, HR.

Class will be held from Wednesday to Saturday – on October 9, 10, 11, 12, 2024, from 10 AM to 6:00 PM. Join the eleven lecturers in this interactive class on ZOOM!

For attorneys, mediators, and family professionals:

If you are already an attorney or mediator who does not have the required Texas Statute domestic violence (DV) training, you can take the DV only class that will be held on Wednesday, October 9, 2024, from 1 PM until 5:00 PM, for only $150.00

Please send an email note with your name to mediation@manousso.us with subject:
Domestic Violence Certificate > MCLE!

This DV class is INCLUDED in our Advance Family 30 hours of training above.

Parenting Coordination and Facilitation Training

($525) Ask about special discounts.

ZOOM live and interactive: Sign up for this and Advance Family at the same time and use the early bird discount (SAVE $$$) for both classes

16 hours-MCLE/CEU 16 and 4 in ethics for JD, CPA, LPC, SW, HR

In 2024, Friday and Saturday, September 20th and 21st, 2024, from 9:00AM until 5:30PM, daily. >> AMICUS training: The PCF skills are excellent for Amicus attorneys in communicating with high conflict clients.

Elder and Adult Family Mediation Training

($600), specially discounted for family mediators.

If you have questions, call (713)557-1010. Classes are held ZOOM live and interactive.

20 hours-MCLE/CEU 20 and 3 in ethics for JD, CPA, LPC, SW, HR on Wednesday, November 20th, 1 PM to 5 PM, Thursday, November 21st, from 9:30 am until 6:00 PM, Friday, November 22nd, 2024, from 9:30 AM until 6:00 PM

Note our NO refund policy, once you have paid for a training, but you can always reschedule online classes with a rescheduling fee of $150, if you cancel within 72 hours.

Our classes can be taken in any order, although you can’t mediate until you meet all the requirements of the Texas statute.

Classes will be held on ZOOM, so it is required for certificate attendance that students use a computer and remain on camera, ATTENTIVELY, for the duration of the training.

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Handicap accessible training venue: ZOOM live!

Texas Justice Center for Mediation and Arbitration in Bellaire off I-610 West Loop.

Ranch Office Conference Room and Virtual Office

Heights Mediation Center

The Texas Mediation Center in Bellaire and Heights Mediation Center are modern, well located, facilities dedicated to ADR meetings, where you can proudly invite your mediation and arbitration clients.

See brochure.

Do you want to be an Elder and Adult Care Mediator, too? What’s your retirement project?!
Do you work with seniors? Or would you like to help families?
Are you a Texas Guardian? Are you signed up for the elder mediation class?

Be part of the fabulous group of professionals already attending! You are never too old to be a mediator!

Article on Dr. Manousso in Houston Woman Magazine, April 2016

Dr. Manousso, and her students of Manousso Elder Mediation were appointed in 2012 as an Associate Member of the
University of Texas Health Consortium on Aging

2014 lecturer at the annual conference of the World Symposium on Elder Mediation in Halifax, Canada.

President of the Houston Gerontological Society 2016 and 2017

Huffington Center for Gerontology Annual Lecturer for the University of Texas Medical School September 14, 2018

Geriatric workers, guardians, mediators, attorneys, CPA, and families dealing with senior parents in Houston.

Click here to register for the Elder Care course

Curriculum

MCLE/CEU State Bar of Texas, Social Workers, Texas Guardians, LPC, CPA, and HR:
In 2018 to 2019, 20 hours were approved with 3 hours in ethics for continuing education.

Curriculum includes:
MENTAL & PHYSICAL EFFECTS OF AGING
Age Bias: The framework of Normal Aging, Physical and Cognitive Changes;
Understanding Alzheimer’s Disease and Other Forms of Dementia and their impact on daily life and living choices;

The Grief Process and the impact of Depression in the Elderly;
Family Psychology: Intergenerational Relationships;
Long Term Care and In-Home Services;
Role of Geriatric Care Management and the Costs of Care;
Payment for services;
Maintaining Independence and other options.

LEGAL and FINANCIAL PLANNING
Planning for Financial Management: Medical options and eligibility delemas.
Medical Decision Making and Capacity Issues
The best way to protect and use your legacy
Guardianship

SPECIAL MEDIATION SKILLS FOR MULTI-GENERATIONAL AND PARTIES
Strategies for Intake and working with complex situations;
Exploring the Hybrid Model of Elder Mediation;
Working with family members who might not be in the room;
Ethical Concerns in medicine and money;
Capacity Issues; and more on the dynamics!

THE BUSINESS of ELDER MEDIATION PRACTICE
Marketing and opportunities to build your business.

Lecturers

Barbara Sunderland Manousso, Ph.D., M.P.H.
Texas Credentialed Distinguished Mediator
Certified Collaborative Law Mediator
Certified Texas Ombudsman for Longterm Care Facilities
President, Houston Gerontological Society 2016 and 2017
Member of the International Association for Conflict Resolution Ethical Standards Committee in Elder Mediation
Former Certified National and Texas Guardian

George Vroulis, Ph.D.
Clinical and Neuropsychologist

Frank Fee, Ph.D.
Geripsychologist
Geriatric Care Manager
Mediator and Arbitrator

James Scott Creighton, Ph.D
Ph.D. in Psychology
Mediator – Arbitrator
Lecturer in Family Dynamics

Lori LaConta, Esq., MBA,
Attorney and Mediator

Virginia Lootens, Esq.
National Elder Law Attorney (NELA)

Keith Peterson, J.D., CPA
Financial Advisor

Melissa Back, J.D.
Mediator, Attorney, and Arbitrator

Elder and Adult Care Mediation: The Profitable Horizon in Family Practice

by admin | Aug 30, 2018 | Elder Mediation | 0 Comments

By Barbara Sunderland Manousso, Ph.D., M.P.H. With the population aging at an unprecedented rate, families are more frequently encountering strained situations about how to best care for a loved one who no longer is able to...

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