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When paying the mortgage is no longer possible: bank mediation as a real alternative
By Silvia Núñez Fernández. Being unable to pay your mortgage is more common than it seems. Job losses, sick leave, separations, rising costs of living, or a combination of factors can turn a previously manageable mortgage payment into an impossible burden. When this happens, many people freeze up: they avoid talking to the bank, stop opening letters, or hope the situation will improve on its own. The problem is that the banking system operates on its own timelines, and when too much time passes, the window for a solution narrows… Read more
There is a shortage of foster families: what is really happening in the child protection system
In many child protection services, the conversation is repeated with increasingly uncomfortable frequency: there are children with agreed-upon foster care placements… and no family is available. This is not an isolated incident or a temporary mismatch. It is a sustained trend that teams have been pointing out for years and that is beginning to have very concrete consequences for the organization of the system. While the official discourse insists—rightly so—on the need to prioritize family environments over residential care, the actual capacity to do so does not always match. Between the legal intention and the availability… Read more
Peer co-tutoring to enhance educational mediation
By José Jesús Trujillo. The sociogroup approach or perspective is primarily interested in understanding the roles that members of a group adopt when a peer is victimized (Salmivalli et al., 1996). From this perspective, the roles of aggressors and victims are important, but so is the passivity of the bystanders or audience, the actions of the victim's advocate, or those of the aggressor's accomplice. As part of the problem, peers also hold the solution in their hands, through peer mediation programs. In the words of Salmivalli et al. (1996), if bullying is a group problem, the group's contribution to… Read more
