Teaching mediation skills to parents helps siblings resolve conflicts

Here's a press release that suggests additional services that mediation centers can offer --

"Children whose parents were trained in mediation skills had better conflict-resolution skills than those whose parents did not receive training. That's the finding of a new study conducted by researchers at the University of Waterloo in Ontario and published in the May/June 2007 issue of the journal Child Development.

The study examined the effects of parents' mediation of sibling conflicts on children's conflict understanding and resolution skills. Mediation is a conflict management technique in which a neutral third party (in this case, the parent) intervenes in a conflict to help the people in the dispute reach a mutually satisfactory solution."

Read more, including the long-term benefits: Teaching mediation skills to parents helps siblings resolve conflicts

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