MEDIATION AS A THERAPEUTIC AND PREVENTIVE MEASURE OF CONFLICTS IN INTERCULTURAL RELATIONSHIPS

Abstract

Family mediation has become a multiprofessional and multidisciplinary practice, so that mental health and social welfare professionals such as psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers and even law and justice professionals such as lawyers have been interested and dedicated their studies and research in the area. Bearing in mind that multicultural relationships, a direct result of globalization and migratory processes, meet and contribute to complex forms of suffering for couples, with their respective difficulties in establishing a comprehensive and satisfactory dialogue after what many understand as "the end of the honeymoon" where the couple begins to establish the internal laws and goals, consolidating the affections of the relationship, family mediation also establishes a prominent field of action. Every day, people's interest in using necessary and available resources in order to avoid relational damage expands, basing decisions and actions on the maintenance and development of healthy relationships, understanding the importance of avoiding toxic and dysfunctional relationships. This work was carried out with the aim of giving a little more prominence to Mediation not only as an alternative method of conflict resolution, a technique, but also to value and explain its preventive character in the sense that it is possible to avoid escalation and the consequent erosion of relationships between couples and intercultural parental relationships, as these relationships already face all the difficulties of communication and understanding that go far beyond a “knowledge and translation of your partner's language”. Thus, due to the phenomenon of interdependence, the event of disagreement and conflict will affect the couple, in some way, and in this way, it will require "therapeutic" care so that a crisis, even if inevitable, moves them towards the creativity, adaptation and resilience of a new situation if necessary.