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| Something a system must do, or an operation it must perform, in order to avoid breakdown. |
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| Form creating; change-promoting processes |
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| Form maintaining; stability-promoting processes |
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| A pictorial display of a person's family relationships and medical history. |
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| Define ETHINICITY in terms of communication: |
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- Refers to critical factors, such as common ancestry, language, nationality and beliefs.
- A family's ethnic heritage dictates the communication norms, which can be maintained for generations.
- Multiracial/ethnic families are especially disclosure dependent.
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| Are relationship agreements, often unconscious, that perscribe and limit a family member's behaviour over time. |
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| Function of maintaining stability; implies checking, and, if necessary, correcting the range of acceptable behaviours. |
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| Imply constancy or maintaining the standard while minimizing change. |
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| CHANGE PROMOTING FEEDBACK: |
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| Involves recalibration of a system at a different level. |
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| Implies that each act triggers new behaviour as well as responds to previous behaviours, rendering it pointless to assign cause and effect. |
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| Refers to the interruption of the sequence of behaviour at different intervals in order to give meaning or to indicate "things started here" |
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| Characterized by two insiders and one outsider, and represents a powerful type of coalition. |
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- Focuses on the connection between symbols, or shared meanings and interactions via verbal and non-verbal communication.
- GEORGE MEAD
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| Focusing on the power in relationships and the fact that the discourses of our relational lives are not valued equally. |
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| Implies and internal consistency; all parts of the story are present and fit together. Structure, material, ad characters. |
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| A story needs direct ties to social reality in order to resonate with listener's personal experience and belief. |
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| A retelling of memories of what was experienced. |
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| Explanations or reasons for person's behaviours and/or situations. |
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| Tells members how to recognize and interpret speech acts; helps to understand why a person should (or should not) say something. |
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| Prescribe acceptable speech behaviour; how, where, when, where and with whom to talk. |
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| When you assume family members will see what you post in social media. |
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| Occurs when real or imagined power differentiations characterize interactions. |
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| HORIZONTAL COMMUNICATION: |
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| Occurs when people perceive and equal status or power. |
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| Using technology to stay connected. |
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| Directed at a person; email, text, messenger. |
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| A retelling of memories of what was experienced, tend to provide a history. |
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| Provide explanations or reasons for the person's behaviour or situations. |
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| A story of extraordinary proportions, know to all members, that serves to define what it means to be a member. |
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- Routine behaviours of life that carry us through each day, usually in a patterned and often unreflective way.
- We maintain our families through everydau interactions, but sometimes stop and focus on a specific relational tie responding to situations and issues.
- Huge area where relationships continue to exist between the point of their initial development and their possible decline.
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| Talk about how a day or situation unfolded. |
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