Conflict Styles
This conflict style involves avoiding the conflict entirely, often postponing or ignoring the issue.
What is avoidance?
True or False: Conflict can be completely avoided in healthy relationships.
What is false?
In recovery, it's important to avoid this conflict style, which can lead to resentment by avoiding important conversations.
What is avoidance?
This is a person's way of thinking, feeling, and behaving when faced with conflict.
Conflict style
This style of conflict resolution emphasizes meeting your own needs and desires, even at the expense of others.
What is competing?
This term refers to a disagreement or clash of ideas, values, or opinions between individuals.
What is conflict?
This conflict style may be useful when setting boundaries, as it helps maintain your priorities.
What is competing?
How many different conflict styles are there?
5
When both parties work together to find a solution that fully satisfies both of their needs, they are using this conflict style.
What is collaboration?
The approach you use to handle conflict is known as your conflict
What is style?
In early recovery, this conflict style can be helpful for creating healthy compromises without returning to old behaviors.
What is compromising?
What is the "Sleep On It" rule?
When you step away from a conflict and take time to think and reflect before making any decisions.
This conflict style is characterized by giving in to the other person's demands while neglecting your own needs.
What is accommodating?
Conflict resolution techniques can help prevent this emotional response, which is characterized by feelings of frustration or anger.
What is escalation?
Being too accommodating in conflicts can lead to this, where you sacrifice your own needs for others.
What is codependency?
How does it help to know what your own conflict style is?
Helps us figure out how to deal with future conflicts, and leads to more effective conflict resolution.
This style seeks a middle ground where both parties give up something to reach a mutually acceptable solution.
What is compromising?
Active listening and expressing your feelings respectfully are key components of this conflict resolution strategy.
What is effective communication?
Developing the ability to collaborate in conflict situations is important for this skill in recovery, which focuses on building healthy relationships.
What is interpersonal effectiveness?
Why is the type of relationship important in figuring out conflicts?
Because we relate differently with people depending on where they are on the relationship ladder.