PACS202 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Breakup, Cognitive Dissonance, Ethnocentrism
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It"s a basic human requirement and practice of constructive conflict is an essential set of interpersonal skills. Can assist in process of redrawing family boundaries, seeing what works and what does not. Depression affects one"s personal relationships and results in millions of dollars lost in workplace due to missed days, plus medical and counselling costs. What determines the course of a relationship is usually determined by how successfully participants move through conflict episodes. In marriage, couples who stay together and enter conflict gently, making repairs on the way when they hurt each other, avoid criticizing and blaming, and avoid criticizing each other when they know it hurts. Presence or absence of conflict does not determine quality of marriage (relationship), it"s how you handle conflict that determines that. Ongoing, unresolved workplace conflicts also had negative effects that read far beyond the principle parties i. e. when doctors and nurses have conflicts, patient can suffer.