COM 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Communication

• School: Tunxis Community College
• Department: Communication
• Course: COM 100
• Professor: Clark

Document Summary

Decision-making, like power, is a process that belongs to the family system, not to an individual. Require solving functional issues, such as getting a job to pay bills or providing transportation. Each family has its own way of reaching decisions on issues. Primarily used for deciding critical family issues. E. g. , major purchases, money issues & vacations. Made to keep the family functioning & does not require direct approval of. Ex: schools having deadlines or spots filling up at times don"t give you a choice, decision is made up for you. Abilities to execute certain decisions are affected by are general levels of health. Influence how you make decisions; how you talk about them. If you lack positive communication skills, those that will allow you to be effective, respectful to someone, will have different result/outcome who lack communication skills (yell, aversive strategies whine, cry, yell ) Decisions are never as simple as they appear.