La mediació en problemes de convivència familiar

This article presents a resource on familiar mediation and orientation that is part of the ensemble of instances available for the attention and the protection of the childhood and the adolescence in Catalonia. This resource of mediation (SOMIA) is one of the three pioneering and innovating services in familiar mediation in Spanish. Its fundamental purpose is to carry out a preventive action that helps to cause listening and to improve the communication between the members of the family. The new forms of conflict that generates the complexity of the current society also affect the familiar context. Learning to develop strategies to manage and to solve conflicts from a positive perspective, will help to analyze the causes that generate the conflict situations and of violence while that will improve the familiar climate.