Narrative mediation can be helpful to understand conflict, and more so to understand family conflict. In a family composed of parents, grandparents, children, and grandchildren, narrative mediation can be particularly useful. Explain why that is the case in a traditional-type family.

What will be an ideal response?


Response needs to make the foundation that in families with different generations, the members of those generations are more likely to be part of different cultures—much as like in the relationship between managers and employees. Therefore, understanding the conflict in families needs to address the difference in understandings the facts—which are not going to be similar across generations. These principles apply to any type of family, including traditional.

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