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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Mirra and Ben, a barista at her favorite coffee house, flirt when she orders her latte. Ben’s arms are covered in tattoos, and his nose is pierced in three places. Mirra is not sure she and Ben would be a good match because she is attracted to intellectual men. When Mirra mentions their flirtation to her friend Sara, she learns Ben has a Ph.D. in philosophy and hosts a podcast on applied ethics. In stereotyping Ben, Mirra ignored ______.

a. individual differences b. patterns of classification c. unique schemata d. fixed impressions

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