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Unit Four RAT

  • Chapter 8
    "Power operates transactionally in a family. It does not belong to an individual; rather , it is a property of a relationship between two or more persons."

    Power bases

    • Normative
    • Economic
    • Affective
    • Personal
    • Cognitive

    Orchestration and/or implementation power
    Spouses and Power: one-spouse, syncratic, autonomic

    Direct influence strategies: bargaining, reasoning, and asking

    Indirect influence strategies: hinting and withdrawal

    Adolescent influence strategy categories

    • Bargaining
    • Persuasion
    • Emotional
    • Request

    Decision making

    • Consensus
    • Accommodation
    • Defacto
    Chapter 9
    Conflict: definition
    "couples conflict over the same issues 69% of the time (Gottman and DeClaire, 1997)"

    Rules for family conflict:

    • governing consideration
    • governing rationality
    • governing specific self-expression
    • governing conflict resolution

    Four Horseman of the Apocalypse:

    • criticism
    • contempt
    • defensiveness
    • stonewalling

    Conflict styles

    • Competition
    • Collaboration
    • Compromise
    • Accommodation
    • Avoiding

    Covert destructive conflict

    • denial
    • disqualification
    • displacement
    • disengagement
    • pseudomutuality

    Gunnysacking

    Common couple violence

    Direct strategies --->marital satisfaction

    Indirect coercive strategies (complaining, criticizing, put-downs and ignoring) -->unproductive negative outcomes

    Constructive conflict:

    • listening
    • fair fighting
    • managing the physical environment