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Teaching mediation skills to parents helps siblings resolve conflicts

A new study has demonstrated promising results of parents' use of mediation skills to resolve conflicts in children. Half of the parents in a sample of 48 families were trained to use mediation to resolve conflicts with sibling pairs between 5 and 10 years old. Conflicts between siblings were more positively resolved in families that received the mediation training. There were also differences in children’s conflict negotiations depending on whether parents received the mediation training.

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