This document discusses interpersonal relationships, including their definition, importance, types, phases of development, and barriers. Interpersonal relationships refer to social and emotional interactions between two or more individuals and are important for personal growth, enjoyment, security, and identity. The main types include friendship, family, professional relationships, love, and marriage. Relationships develop through phases of orientation, identification, exploitation, and resolution. Barriers to strong interpersonal relationships can be situational like distance or time, personal like insecurity or poor communication, or sociocultural like differences in culture, language, or social groups.

1. INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIP
DEVELOPMENT

2. DEFINITION….
~~ Interpersonal relationship refers to
social and emotional interaction between
two or more individuals in an
environment.
~~ Interpersonal relationship is also
defined as the close association between
the individuals who share common
interest and goals .

3. IMPORTANCE OR PURPOSES…
for example..
~ Interpersonal relationship for an individual
-
Personal growth and development.
Source of enjoyment.
Sense of security.
Context of understanding.
Interpersonal needs.
Establishing personal identity.

4. TYPES OF INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIP..
~ These relationships are basically classified based on
relational interaction and mutual expectation
between communicators.
Some of the common types of interpersonal relation are:
1.Friendship
6.Brotherhood &sisterhood
2.Family
7.Casual relationships
3.Professional relationship
8.Acquaintances
4.Love
5. Marriage

5. PHASES OF INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIP
1. ORIENTATION
~Starts with an initial encounter (any sort of conversation).
~Leads to sharing of responsibilities ,boundaries .
~Identifying problems ,looking for choices and other several
options ,and sharing them .
~Developing a trustworthy relationship by clarifying doubts
Sharing perceptions ,conveying needs etc.

6. SECOND PHASE - IDENTIFICATION
~Approaching and understanding to perceive the feeling
of the other person.
~Must avoid all the distractions for the communication to
be more effective.
~Identifying the problems and helping others with the
resources available.
~As these take place our feelings as well as the
listeners, boost up and gives us a feeling of
belongingness .

7. THIRD PHASE - EXPLOITATION
~In this , the listener is made to understand the problem
by all available avenue.
~We are supposed to extend for any minimal assistance
needed by others to understand the problem .
~Slowly we see that the listener starts exploiting instead
of asking help .
~Finally the person is ready to deal with the problems
adequately.

8. FOURTH PHASE – RESOLUTION
~Starts with the termination of professional relationship.
~Collaborative efforts have been already met earlier
among the communicators.
~No psychological dependence must persist between them
if its an outsider or not a well known.
~The relationship must be terminated by just maintaining
a healthy and friendly relationship.

9. BARRIERS OF INTERPERSONAL
RELATIONSHIP
1. SITUATIONAL BARRIERS .
2. PERSONAL BARRIERS .
3. SOCIOCULTURAL BARRIERS .

10. SITUATIONAL BARRIERS..
~Complex interaction .
~Large distance.
~Lack of time.
~Adverse environmental situations.
~High density of an individual.

11. PERSONAL BARRIERS..
~Fear of rejection.
~Lack of flexibility.
~Ineffective communication.
~Lack of honesty and trust.
~Feeling of insecurity.
Etc..

12. SOCIOCULTURAL BARRIERS..
~Cultural diversity.
~Language diversity.
~Social diversity.
~Ethnic diversity.