Advanced Qualification in Family Mediation

The award

The Advanced Qualification in Family Mediation (AQFM) is a programme designed to recognise the distinct experience, expertise and understanding of family mediators who have practiced for some years since qualification.  The scheme is open to all family mediators who have been members of the College for three or more years.

Candidates for the award are required to show that they have substantial experience of family mediation, to show that their practice expertise meets the higher levels of ability specified for the award, and to demonstrate a developed understanding of a particular and approved aspect of family mediation.

Key features

The key features of the scheme are 

• the demonstration of postqualification experience 

• the demonstration of professional expertise - by means of a taped practice session together with a detailed analysis of that practice, and by an independent assessment of practice ability 

• the demonstration of a developed professional understanding by means of a paper on an approved family mediation topic. 

Assessment

The College maintains a panel of assessors.  Material submitted for assessment will be forwarded to two members of the panel who will normally agree together whether or not the Advanced Qualification in Family Mediation should be awarded. 

Fees

Candidates will be asked to pay a fee for assessment for the Award.

Dissemination

The College may invite the authors of particularly successful practice and specialist papers to publish those papers as ‘occasional papers’ produced by the College.

Further details

Download the leaflet about the Award which gives more detail; or download the full AQFM: Guidelines and Instructions for Candidates.