Interpersonal Relationships

A day in the life of a veterinary technician may include answering clients’ questions, providing written or verbal instructions regarding care of an animal, answering the telephone,

“Men and women can't be friends, because sex always gets in the way”, is the main theme of the movie “When Harry met Sally”. The script is a good example of the interpersonal communication ten stage model by Mark Knapp. This developmental model entails the stages of a relationship from it’s infancy to an ending. In the movie we can clearly identify all ten stages of this model.

To be able to develop any kind of positive relationship with any other human being, we

* intimate relationships involve a high degree of love, trust, empathy and commitment from both partners

Matthew Goldberg Unequal Childhoods Essay SOCI308 “Unequal Childhoods” Unequal Childhoods” by Annette Lareaus brings forth ideas and issues in relation to class, race, and family life. The topics bring a unique perspective in how individuals look and perceive different social classes. Lareaus also talks about the childrearing approach and how they relate to classes in ways such as concerted conservation and accomplishment of natural growth. These approaches are different in the way they affect and show certain classes.

* Body Paragraph #3 - Differentiate appropriate levels of self-disclosure and emotional intelligence in various relationships.

According to the Human Communication textbook “Our relationships with others help us understand who we are and how others

Although many books have been written about communication and connection in relationships, there has been a book that addresses precisely this wonderful process as has James C. Petersen in his book: Why Don’t We Listen Better? And it is precisely the way in which the parts he divided the book that takes the reader to a better understanding of what the personal relationships connections through communications are concerned.

Just as self concept seemed a vicious circle, where this affects that and that effects this; relational development is the same. Relational development can alter our lives and our communication, while communication issues can alter our relational development and our lives. The relational perspective is a pragmatic one and focuses on the continuance of communication processes through relationships. (Rogers, 2004.) Relationships go through a series of stages. The initial and first encounter to a relationship is called the initiating stage. While in this stage, two people attempt to create favorably impressionable first impressions. In this stage you will look for cues about the other person’s personality, attitude, beliefs, and values so that you can progress the relationship. If the relationship continues and impressions are favorable than the two people move to the second stage, also known as the experimenting stage. In this stage people reveal themselves further but not completely since the stage is still a precarious one. If a common ground and understanding of each other is obtained then the relationship moves to the next stage, the intensifying stage. In this stage shared experiences becomes common and self disclosure is open. The next stage is the integrating stage, this is where the individuals usually become a couple. They have shared interests and attitudes, and sometimes talk or act alike. The other individual becomes like your other half. If things go awry than relationships often shift to the circumscribing stage. This is when couples start to self disclose less and less to the other person. Then comes the stagnating stage. At this point there is no communication and no activity between the two people. Sometimes there is an

At Teacher’s College in the early 1950s she created and taught the first classes for graduate nursing students. Between 1954 and 1974, Peplau was a faculty member at Rutgers University College of Nursing. Here she created the first graduate program for clinical specialists in psychiatric nursing. In the 1950s and 1960s, she held summer workshops for nurses across the US teaching interpersonal concepts and interviewing techniques for individual, family, and group therapy. She also served as an advisor for the World Health Organization. (Hildegard Peplau). Peplau, in 1952, published her Theory of Interpersonal Relations which in 1968 became the crux of psychiatric nursing. Her theory was influenced by Henry Stack Sullivan, Percival Symonds, Abraham Maslow, and Neal Elger Miller. Peplau’s Theory of Interpersonal Relations identifies four sequential phases in the interpersonal

The subjects are strangers and have never met before. The next phase is the personal phase. In this phase, the subjects of the relationship begin to communicate in more of a personal level. They begin to open up about themselves and share more personal details with each other. Lastly, the exit

Theory explains why as relationships develop, communication moves from less intimate levels to more intimate, more personal levels.

Short term relationship – relationship that lasted only for a short duration of time. Example: Individuals to attend a conference can build short time relationship.

Another variable that differs from Levinger’s definition of close relationships that has changed in the recent years, is the ability to form and continue a strong, close relationship without having to be physically close to the other person. With the astounding technology that we have today, people now have the ability to make friends and meet partners over the internet. With websites for social networking, online dating services, chatting face-to-face over a computer screen, and instant messaging, a close relationship can now be formed and continued over the internet without physical interaction. As long as there is frequent interaction involved two friends, or partners still have the ability to maintain a relationship. For example, a high school graduate moving off to college can now communicate on a daily basis with their best friend from their home town. They even have the ability to see and hear their friend’s voice.

During life, a huge part is the connection with one another . There are so many