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Unit 4: Summary

Respect Other's Perspectives
Each person has the right to expect validation, consideration, and empathy for their perspective.

Interaction and Responsibility
The word responsibility meaning exactly what it sounds like, response-ability. When you are given a responsibility, you are given choices within certain boundaries. Responsibility can lead to friction with others, and interactions with others are usually required for you to fulfill your responsibility.
 - Define Responsibility
 - Define Power

The Negotiation Process
Solving problems in a relationship, is not just a matter of presenting your argument and manipulating others to get what you want. Negotiating, as it applies to effective humanistic intervention, is a consensus process, which has the purpose of making a decision which will work for both of you.

DYNAMIC INTERACTION SKILLS PROCESS:
1. Presentation
2. Response
3. Free Discussion
4. Clarification
5. Set a Goal
6. Brainstorm
7. Plan
8. Temperature Check
9. Amendments
10. Summary
11. Assign Responsibilities
12. Assign Power

FOUR INTERACTION AGENDAS
We have identified four kinds of agendas people use during interactions. They include: venting, requesting, negotiating, and limit setting. Understanding these processes and determining which ones are at play during an interaction will help you respond more effectively.

INTERPERSONAL RIGHTS
There are certain interpersonal rights, which do not vary greatly across relationships. Each individual should become aware of these rights and develop the skills and strategies to demand respect for themselves. It is also important to learn to grant those rights to others. Each right carries an equal obligation.

1. The Right to Safety
2 . The Right to Space
3. The Right to Self Care
4. The Right to Perception Respect
5. The Right to an Issue

 


Unity is strength . . .
when there is teamwork
and collaboration,
wonderful things
can be achieved.

 

 


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