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DIALECTS
           I n s t r u c t o r : M r. Tu n g
           Nguyen
           Class: 4BPD
           Group: 7
           Group members:
           L ý N g ọ c Tr à A n
           Ngô Hương Giang
           Tr ầ n N h ư H ạ n h
           Tr ầ n T h ị M ỹ H ạ n h
           Phạm Thị Hồng Thắm
           Nguyễn Thị Thảo Tiên
OUTLINE


A.     RELATIONAL DIALECTICS
I.     Autonomy -Connection
II.    Openness - closedness
III.   Novelty -predictability
B.     MANAGING DIALECTICAL TENSIONS
I.     Cyclic alternation
II.    Intergration
III.   Neutralization
IV.    Reframing Relationships
Autonomy-Connection

Relational Dialectics
                          Openess-Closeness


                        Novelty & Predictability
AUTONOMY-CONNECTION

 Autonomy = desire to do things independent of your partner.
 Connection = desire to link your actions and decisions with
  your partner.
 Autonomy -Connection = desire to have ties and connections
  with others versus the need to separate yourself as a unique
  individual.
EXAMPLE 1

As an athlete, Zack wants to feel a part
 of a team but he also wants to highlight
 his individual talents.
EXAMPLE 2

 Joel and Shelly have been
  dating for about a year. Shelly
  wants to spend most of her
  free time with Joel and enjoys
  talking with Joel before acting
  or making decisions, but Joel
  has begun to feel hemmed in.
  Shelly is at peace and may not
  recognize any tension between
  autonomy and connection. On
  the other hand, Joel is feeling
  the tension between wanting
  to be more autonomous
  without jeopardizing his
  connection to Shelly. If Joel
  begins to act
  autonomously, he may relieve
  his own tension but at the
  same time create tension in
  the relationship.
EXAMPLE 3
 Jasmine doesn’t need to be with her husband when there is
  work to do, whether it is around the house, running errands,
  or actually going to work. She wants to be alone. She can
  work all day, be on her own doing it, and it is something
  she doesn’t need her husband to be there for her with.
  When they are with family, friends being on vacation,
  planning activities and trips she wants her husband by her
  side and for them to do everything together. He wants to be
  autonomous when it comes to watching sports, and wants
  her with him when they are out with friends.
Presenter:
Trần Như Hạnh
In any relationship, verbal revelation and
 concealment act as critical gatekeepers in
 moving a relationship to greater or lesser
 intimacy.
Verbal self-disclosure often follows a trust-risk
 dilemma. To trust someone, you have to be
 willing to take some risks to share some
 unique information about yourself.
EXAMPLE

You have just known a new
friend and you really want to
share more information about
yourself with her because you
want to get closer to her.
You have to take risk to share
about your unique information
in order to let her know more
about you. However, you also
worry that she will betray you
the exclusive information you
have just shared. Therefore, it
arises the trust- risk dilemma –
to tell or not to tell.
OPENESS

Openness is the desire to share intimate ideas
and feelings with your partner.
Openness refers to the
disclosure of information
concerning the different facets
of the public self(
e.g., interest, hobbies, political
opinions, career aspirations)
and/or the private self
(e.g., deep family
issues, identity, self-image
and self-esteem issues).
CLOSEDNESS

Closedness is the desire to maintain privacy.
Closedness refers to the lack of
disclosure or sharing of exclusive
information about either the public
self or the private self. The term
public self refers to those facets of
the person that are readily available
and are easily shared with others,
the term private self refers to those
facets of the person that are
potentially communicable but are
not usually shared with others.
 Self-disclosure is one of the key factors in developing
  a personalized relationship in any culture or ethic
  group.
 Self-disclosure is the deliberate process of revealing
  significant information about oneself that would not
  normally be known.
 The breadth of self-disclosure refers to the number of topics a
  person is willing to share with others. For instance, when two
  friends meet for drinks or a meal, the number of topics is
  typically large. Issues can range from travel plans, to dating
  experiences, to school and work updates.
The depth of self-disclosure refers to the level of intimacy
or emotional vulnerability a person is willing to reveal in
her or his conversation exchange process. For
example, when two close friends talk about their
interracial dating experiences, the depth of disclosure
usually consists of intimate details, the high and low
points, concerns, frustrations, family reactions, and
exhilaration points.
Therefore, you may also converse on similar
 topics with acquantances or coworkers but
 really go to more deep and intimate levels –
 revealing your fears, worries, pride or joy –
 with selective friends
NOVELTY - PREDICTABILITY
Routine



Security   Predictability
Novelty: desire for
  originality
  freshness
  uniqueness

Predictability: desire for
  consistency
  reliability
  dependability
Shelly and Joel      much of the
have been            uncertainty
                  => is gone from their
dating for a year
                     relationship
 But they do not want to eliminate uncertainty
  altogether.
 With no uncertainty at all, a relationship becomes so
  predictable and so routine that it is boring.
Although Shelly and Joel know each other
 well, can predict much about each
 other, and have quite a few routines in their
 relationship, they also want to be surprised
 and have new experiences with each other.
They each need some amount of both
 novelty and predictability in the
 relationship.
Dialectical tensions exist in all
relationships — not just romantic ones
— and they are always in flux.
It’s nice that we always have a
movie date on Saturdays
(predictability), but may be we
should change things up
tonight (novelty).
Successfully negotiating the predictability -
 novelty tension is important because boredom
 is one of the top reasons couples break up.
Sometimes these dialectical tensions are
 active and in the foreground; at other times
 they are in the background.
 Nevertheless, when these tension are
 experienced, they change what is happening
 in the relationship (Wood, 2000).
MANAGING DIALECTICAL
           TENSIONS
►Cyclic alternation
►Segmentation
►Selection
►Integration
A. CYCLIC ALTERNATION




 Cyclic alternation is strategy for coping with dialectic
  tensions in a relationship that allows us to isolate separate
  arenas, such as work and home, for using each pole in the
  opposition .
 For instance, if Eileen discloses a great deal with her mother
  when she is in high school and then keep much more
  information private from her mother when she goes to
  college, she is engaging in cyclic alternation.By sometimes
  being open and other times keeping silent, cyclic alternation
  allows Eileen to satisfy both goals.
SEGMENTATION

 Segmentation allows people to isolate separate arenas for
  using privacy and openness .
 For example, if Mac Thomas works in a business with his
  father, Joe, they may not disclose to one another at work but
  do so when they are together in a family setting.
SELECTION
Selection means that you choose one of the
 opposites and ignore your need for the other
 .
For instance, Rosie might decide that
 disclosing to her friend, Tina, isn’t
 working.Tina fails to be empathic and has
 occasionally told something Rosie told her in
 confidence to another friend.Rosie can use
 selection and simply stop disclosing to Tina
 altogether, making their relationship less
 open but less stressful .
B. INTEGRATION

Disqualifying
Neutralizing
Reframing
DISQUALIFYING

 Disqualifying allows people to cope with tensions by
  exempting certain issues from the general pattern .
TABOO TOPICS
C. NEUTRALIZATION

 Relationship problems are another type of "stress"
  we all experience from time to time. Conflicts can
  arise with our spouse, parents, children, friends, co -
  workers, employees, bosses, or even with total
  strangers.
1. HOW TO DEAL WITH
           RELATIONSHIP STRESS
How To Deal With Relationship Problems
 Step 1: DEFINE YOUR PROBLEM (S) SPECIF ICALLY --i .e. "My husband never
  talks to me," "My boss hates my guts," "I can't stand to be around X for
  more than two minutes," or "I'm in love with Y, but he/she isn't interested
  in me."
 Step 2: RELATE TO EACH OF YOUR RELATIONSHIP PROBLEM S AS
  FEEDBACK --i .e. assume you are par tly the cause of the problem.
 Step 3: IDENTIF Y THE SPECIF IC CONVERSATIONS AND ACTION PATTERNS
  within you that are causing your relationship problems to occur or
  per sist.
 Step 4: REMIND YOURSELF that these hidden patterns EXIST IN YOUR
  BODY, not your mind.
 Step 5: TAKE ACTION TO NEUTRALIZE THESE HIDDE N CAUSES --i .e.
  challenge your stress -producing conver sati ons; disrupt your automatic
  behavior patterns; create relationship - enhancing contexts.
 Step 6: If your relationship problems don't improve, REPEAT STEPS 1 -5
  AND/OR GET COACHING.
2. RELATIONSHIP-DESTROYING
          PATTERNS
 Many of us assume that our relationships should just work
  out by virtue of our inherent goodness and kindness. Our
  thinking goes something like this: "Human beings are
  naturally loving, caring, committed individuals who only
  need to find the right kind of partner to live happily ever
  after."
 To succeed in our relationships, therefore, we must learn to
  recognize and deal with the hidden relationship -destroying
  patterns within us. Not only must we know how to deal with
  these patterns in ourselves, but we must also know how to
  deal with similar patterns in other people as well.
 We have already discussed several of these patterns. Take the
  issue of control, for instance. Much of our relationship stress
  comes from our conscious and unconscious ef forts to change
  or control other people. We want others to behave in certain
  ways, and when we can't get them to, we become angry and
  resentful. The more we try to change them and fail, the more
  angry, frustrated, and depressed we are likely to become.
 We are also very critical and judgmental of other people.
  Internal conversations such as GOOD/BAD, RIGHT/WRONG,
  CAUSE/EFFECT, AND PERFECTIONISM commonly contribute to
  our interpersonal problems.
D. REFRAMING RELATIONSHIPS

 No doubt one of the most complicated aspects of our
  existence comes from trying to be authentic while we interact
  with other people. Reframing relationships is a very dif ficult
  task.
 Intimate relationships can experience every emotion
  associated with frigidity, abandonment, betrayal as well as
  bazaar rituals and appetites
Equally there are challenges that arise with
 people in every social group from our religious
 gatherings to our work environment.
If we are to reframe how we view others, every
 moment of every day we must remain alert to
 one truth – ―I am the diamond and others are
 the polishing agents.‖ Others will not realize
 the role we have assigned to them but they
 will serve us once we have chosen to view
 everyone as our personal polishing agent. The
 harsher the abrasive, the brighter we will
 shine.

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Commu g7-chap7

  • 1. DIALECTS I n s t r u c t o r : M r. Tu n g Nguyen Class: 4BPD Group: 7 Group members: L ý N g ọ c Tr à A n Ngô Hương Giang Tr ầ n N h ư H ạ n h Tr ầ n T h ị M ỹ H ạ n h Phạm Thị Hồng Thắm Nguyễn Thị Thảo Tiên
  • 2. OUTLINE A. RELATIONAL DIALECTICS I. Autonomy -Connection II. Openness - closedness III. Novelty -predictability B. MANAGING DIALECTICAL TENSIONS I. Cyclic alternation II. Intergration III. Neutralization IV. Reframing Relationships
  • 3.
  • 4. Autonomy-Connection Relational Dialectics Openess-Closeness Novelty & Predictability
  • 5. AUTONOMY-CONNECTION  Autonomy = desire to do things independent of your partner.  Connection = desire to link your actions and decisions with your partner.  Autonomy -Connection = desire to have ties and connections with others versus the need to separate yourself as a unique individual.
  • 6. EXAMPLE 1 As an athlete, Zack wants to feel a part of a team but he also wants to highlight his individual talents.
  • 7. EXAMPLE 2  Joel and Shelly have been dating for about a year. Shelly wants to spend most of her free time with Joel and enjoys talking with Joel before acting or making decisions, but Joel has begun to feel hemmed in. Shelly is at peace and may not recognize any tension between autonomy and connection. On the other hand, Joel is feeling the tension between wanting to be more autonomous without jeopardizing his connection to Shelly. If Joel begins to act autonomously, he may relieve his own tension but at the same time create tension in the relationship.
  • 8. EXAMPLE 3  Jasmine doesn’t need to be with her husband when there is work to do, whether it is around the house, running errands, or actually going to work. She wants to be alone. She can work all day, be on her own doing it, and it is something she doesn’t need her husband to be there for her with. When they are with family, friends being on vacation, planning activities and trips she wants her husband by her side and for them to do everything together. He wants to be autonomous when it comes to watching sports, and wants her with him when they are out with friends.
  • 10. In any relationship, verbal revelation and concealment act as critical gatekeepers in moving a relationship to greater or lesser intimacy. Verbal self-disclosure often follows a trust-risk dilemma. To trust someone, you have to be willing to take some risks to share some unique information about yourself.
  • 11. EXAMPLE You have just known a new friend and you really want to share more information about yourself with her because you want to get closer to her. You have to take risk to share about your unique information in order to let her know more about you. However, you also worry that she will betray you the exclusive information you have just shared. Therefore, it arises the trust- risk dilemma – to tell or not to tell.
  • 12. OPENESS Openness is the desire to share intimate ideas and feelings with your partner. Openness refers to the disclosure of information concerning the different facets of the public self( e.g., interest, hobbies, political opinions, career aspirations) and/or the private self (e.g., deep family issues, identity, self-image and self-esteem issues).
  • 13. CLOSEDNESS Closedness is the desire to maintain privacy. Closedness refers to the lack of disclosure or sharing of exclusive information about either the public self or the private self. The term public self refers to those facets of the person that are readily available and are easily shared with others, the term private self refers to those facets of the person that are potentially communicable but are not usually shared with others.
  • 14.  Self-disclosure is one of the key factors in developing a personalized relationship in any culture or ethic group.  Self-disclosure is the deliberate process of revealing significant information about oneself that would not normally be known.
  • 15.  The breadth of self-disclosure refers to the number of topics a person is willing to share with others. For instance, when two friends meet for drinks or a meal, the number of topics is typically large. Issues can range from travel plans, to dating experiences, to school and work updates.
  • 16. The depth of self-disclosure refers to the level of intimacy or emotional vulnerability a person is willing to reveal in her or his conversation exchange process. For example, when two close friends talk about their interracial dating experiences, the depth of disclosure usually consists of intimate details, the high and low points, concerns, frustrations, family reactions, and exhilaration points.
  • 17. Therefore, you may also converse on similar topics with acquantances or coworkers but really go to more deep and intimate levels – revealing your fears, worries, pride or joy – with selective friends
  • 19. Routine Security Predictability
  • 20. Novelty: desire for  originality  freshness  uniqueness Predictability: desire for  consistency  reliability  dependability
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  • 22. Shelly and Joel much of the have been uncertainty => is gone from their dating for a year relationship
  • 23.  But they do not want to eliminate uncertainty altogether.  With no uncertainty at all, a relationship becomes so predictable and so routine that it is boring.
  • 24. Although Shelly and Joel know each other well, can predict much about each other, and have quite a few routines in their relationship, they also want to be surprised and have new experiences with each other. They each need some amount of both novelty and predictability in the relationship.
  • 25. Dialectical tensions exist in all relationships — not just romantic ones — and they are always in flux.
  • 26. It’s nice that we always have a movie date on Saturdays (predictability), but may be we should change things up tonight (novelty).
  • 27. Successfully negotiating the predictability - novelty tension is important because boredom is one of the top reasons couples break up. Sometimes these dialectical tensions are active and in the foreground; at other times they are in the background. Nevertheless, when these tension are experienced, they change what is happening in the relationship (Wood, 2000).
  • 28. MANAGING DIALECTICAL TENSIONS ►Cyclic alternation ►Segmentation ►Selection ►Integration
  • 29. A. CYCLIC ALTERNATION  Cyclic alternation is strategy for coping with dialectic tensions in a relationship that allows us to isolate separate arenas, such as work and home, for using each pole in the opposition .
  • 30.  For instance, if Eileen discloses a great deal with her mother when she is in high school and then keep much more information private from her mother when she goes to college, she is engaging in cyclic alternation.By sometimes being open and other times keeping silent, cyclic alternation allows Eileen to satisfy both goals.
  • 31. SEGMENTATION  Segmentation allows people to isolate separate arenas for using privacy and openness .
  • 32.  For example, if Mac Thomas works in a business with his father, Joe, they may not disclose to one another at work but do so when they are together in a family setting.
  • 33. SELECTION Selection means that you choose one of the opposites and ignore your need for the other .
  • 34. For instance, Rosie might decide that disclosing to her friend, Tina, isn’t working.Tina fails to be empathic and has occasionally told something Rosie told her in confidence to another friend.Rosie can use selection and simply stop disclosing to Tina altogether, making their relationship less open but less stressful .
  • 36. DISQUALIFYING  Disqualifying allows people to cope with tensions by exempting certain issues from the general pattern .
  • 38. C. NEUTRALIZATION  Relationship problems are another type of "stress" we all experience from time to time. Conflicts can arise with our spouse, parents, children, friends, co - workers, employees, bosses, or even with total strangers.
  • 39. 1. HOW TO DEAL WITH RELATIONSHIP STRESS How To Deal With Relationship Problems  Step 1: DEFINE YOUR PROBLEM (S) SPECIF ICALLY --i .e. "My husband never talks to me," "My boss hates my guts," "I can't stand to be around X for more than two minutes," or "I'm in love with Y, but he/she isn't interested in me."  Step 2: RELATE TO EACH OF YOUR RELATIONSHIP PROBLEM S AS FEEDBACK --i .e. assume you are par tly the cause of the problem.  Step 3: IDENTIF Y THE SPECIF IC CONVERSATIONS AND ACTION PATTERNS within you that are causing your relationship problems to occur or per sist.  Step 4: REMIND YOURSELF that these hidden patterns EXIST IN YOUR BODY, not your mind.  Step 5: TAKE ACTION TO NEUTRALIZE THESE HIDDE N CAUSES --i .e. challenge your stress -producing conver sati ons; disrupt your automatic behavior patterns; create relationship - enhancing contexts.  Step 6: If your relationship problems don't improve, REPEAT STEPS 1 -5 AND/OR GET COACHING.
  • 40. 2. RELATIONSHIP-DESTROYING PATTERNS  Many of us assume that our relationships should just work out by virtue of our inherent goodness and kindness. Our thinking goes something like this: "Human beings are naturally loving, caring, committed individuals who only need to find the right kind of partner to live happily ever after."
  • 41.  To succeed in our relationships, therefore, we must learn to recognize and deal with the hidden relationship -destroying patterns within us. Not only must we know how to deal with these patterns in ourselves, but we must also know how to deal with similar patterns in other people as well.  We have already discussed several of these patterns. Take the issue of control, for instance. Much of our relationship stress comes from our conscious and unconscious ef forts to change or control other people. We want others to behave in certain ways, and when we can't get them to, we become angry and resentful. The more we try to change them and fail, the more angry, frustrated, and depressed we are likely to become.  We are also very critical and judgmental of other people. Internal conversations such as GOOD/BAD, RIGHT/WRONG, CAUSE/EFFECT, AND PERFECTIONISM commonly contribute to our interpersonal problems.
  • 42. D. REFRAMING RELATIONSHIPS  No doubt one of the most complicated aspects of our existence comes from trying to be authentic while we interact with other people. Reframing relationships is a very dif ficult task.  Intimate relationships can experience every emotion associated with frigidity, abandonment, betrayal as well as bazaar rituals and appetites
  • 43. Equally there are challenges that arise with people in every social group from our religious gatherings to our work environment. If we are to reframe how we view others, every moment of every day we must remain alert to one truth – ―I am the diamond and others are the polishing agents.‖ Others will not realize the role we have assigned to them but they will serve us once we have chosen to view everyone as our personal polishing agent. The harsher the abrasive, the brighter we will shine.