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Organizational Communication
How a creative capacity for expression may offer ways of inquiring into human experience in organizations
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Case studies of where the approach has been used before
How to use the approach
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What this approach is, and why it should be used
Identify strategies that parents might use to stay abreast of digital media advances and ways they can effectively address their concerns with their children
Select a specific issue within the difficult conversation areas of genetics or money. Explain how you might suggest to a family you know how an adult member could address the topic meaningfully with
In what ways would you predict that family therapy would differ across two ethnic groups?
Take a position on the following question: To what extent should couples or parents be required by religious or civic institutions to engage in family enrichment workshops or family therapy?
What goals and criteria would you establish for a successful marriage or family enrichment program with a communication focus? Briefly describe the audience you envision (e.g., a stepfamily with
Analyze the prescriptions for marital or parent-child communication found in a popular book or magazine article. Evaluate the effectiveness of the advice based on your understanding of family systems
How would you describe communication in a well-functioning family?Answer within a context of a specific developmental stage, culture, and family form (e.g., a two-parent, Chinese family with
Identify and explain three effective and three ineffective ways for family members to influence each other’s health.
In what ways should family communication about health change over one’s lifespan?
Understand the authors' final perspectives on family communication
Explain approaches for improving family communication
Understand family communication about difficult topics, including genetic risk, money, financial stress, and new technology challenges
Describe the association between family communication and physical well-being
Give examples of Level I, II, and III coping strategies that reflect how families cope with crises.
Using Baxter’s concepts of dialectical contradictions in relationships, discuss with examples how you think crises affect openness-closedness, predictability-novelty, and autonomy-connectedness in
What guidelines for communication would you recommend to spouses who have children and are about to separate?
How do different cultural and/or religious attitudes toward death aid or restrict the mourning process for surviving family members?
Describe how a “happy event” has brought high levels of stress to a family with which you are familiar.
Using the same example of family stress, compare and contrast an analysis of the problem according to the ABCX model and the double ABCX model.
Using a real or fictional family, analyze the effects on the family of a severe stress that impacted one member (e.g., drug problem, serious car accident, or severe illness).
Describe specific types of crises and how family communication is affected by these
Understand unpredictable stress that families face and how they cope
Compare and contrast communication patterns you have observed in the interactions between middle-aged and older family members in two families. To what extent were reminiscing, reflection, and
Describe three ways in which communication is affected by the departure of young adults during the launching stage in either twoparent systems or singleparent systems.
What key qualities appear to characterize family communication during the period when one or more adolescents are living within the household?
Relying on your own family or a family you have observed, describe how a couple or partners have dealt with the communication tasks of incorporating a child into their system and dealing with the
Imagining your own family or a family you know well, provide examples of verbal or nonverbal communication patterns that seemed commonplace at different developmental stages in the family life cycle
Discuss what impact different cultural backgrounds have on the communication in various stages of development on children and parents. To what extent might an Asian American, Hispanic, African
Reflecting on your own family or one you know well, compare and contrast how the traditional stages of development were affected by lifecourse issues. Cite three examples of on-time and off-time
Analyze the function of communication in the family’s transitions between stages
Illustrate major communication tasks and challenges in the different stages of family life course
Characterize the role of communication in the family stress model
Explain the developmental stages and life-course approaches to family development
Give an example of constructive conflict in a real or fictional family.What makes it constructive? How does the family communicate and manage the conflict more effectively?
Give an example of destructive conflict in a real or fictional family.What makes it destructive? How could the family communicate and manage the conflict more effectively?
Relate examples from your own experiences with families that might agree or disagree with Gottman’s conclusion that couples can encounter conflict, but the ratio needs to be five positive messages
Interview three persons about their attitudes or practices toward conflict communication they learned in their family of origin and how they perceive those attitudes and practices influence how they
Using the stages of family conflict, describe a recurring conflict in a real or fictional family.
Take a position and discuss whether conflict is inevitable and necessary for family relationships to develop and grow.
Compare and contrast destructive and constructive conflict communication
Illustrate the role and management of unresolved family conflict
Explain communication and conflict negotiation in different couple types, family communication patterns, and Gottman’s conflict types
Analyze an ongoing family dispute using the conflict stages model
Demonstrate what a conflict is via defining conflict and explaining the role of interdependence, expression, perceptions, goals, and scarce resources
Using the eight phases of the loop model of problem-solving, analyze how a family makes a decision on an important issue. Choose your family of origin if you like, but feel free to select another
To what extent should children be part of the family’s decision-making process? How can they develop the communication skills necessary to participate effectively in such discussions?
Give specific examples of how families may use consensus, accommodation, and de facto decision-making processes.
Analyze the types of verbal influence strategies used by a real or fictional family. Do you see any patterns of strategy usage? Which influence strategies seem to be most effective in your example?
Analyze the power resources used regularly by members of a real or fictional family. Indicate how members use communication to convey their use of these resources.
How might power affect a family’s cohesion and adaptability?
Illustrate communication skills that facilitate family decision-making
Analyze the factors affecting family decision-making
Demonstrate how different influence strategies may be used by individual family members or subgroups
Identify five sources of power in families
Compare and contrast Cromwell and Olson’s three aspects of power
Trace the source of power in families and the transactional nature of power
How do different communication technologies affect family roles and communication patterns today? How has this changed over the last 10 to 15 years? What changes do you anticipate by 2025?
Identify a media character who has been part of two or more serious romantic relationships. How did the character change within this new partnership? Give two examples of changes in communication
Identify two examples of adult partnerships you know that fit Fitzpatrick’s couple types. Describe some communication strategies that the partners use.
Identify a real or fictional family that changed over time. Note how some family roles may have shifted in the past few years and give reasons for these changes. What has been the effect of these
Compare and contrast the communication tasks required to carry out the role functions involved in providing resources and nurturance for the family. Describe how these functions are enacted in a
Discuss how family roles may change by 2025. How might families be similar or different at that point? What new roles may emerge or disappear?
Explain Fitzpatrick's three major couple types
Illustrate the four family types based on the family communication patterns typology
Compare the enactment of a specific family role function in different families
Describe how each family role function may be enacted
Illustrate the difference between role expectations and role enactment
Explain the concepts of roles and role functions
Assume you are a parent. What qualities would you advise your child to look for in a marital partnership or long-term committed partnership?
Relying on personal observation or a media example, discuss ways you have seen an intimate adult relationship overcome jealousy or deception through forgiveness.
Under what circumstances, if any, would you recommend withholding full self-disclosure of a very serious issue in a marital and/or family relationship?
Take a position on the following statement and defend it: A marital/partnership commitment should be broken only in cases of partner or child abuse.
Create your own definition of family intimacy and provide two examples of such relationships characterized by intimate communication.
Create your own definition of marital and/or committed partnership intimacy and provide two examples of such relationships characterized by intimate communication.
Illustrate the barriers to partner and family intimacy
Create guidelines for parents on how to talk about sex with their children
Explain the challenges of talking about sexuality with children and adolescents
Compare the benefits and costs of total self-disclosure in family relationships
Illustrate the concepts of sacrifice, forgiveness, and sanctification
Assess the importance of communication to partner and family intimacy Explain the significance of commitment to members of a real or fictional family
Interview someone from another culture to describe (1) the most significant relational strategies in their culture and (2) the relational strategies used in U.S. culture that would not be appropriate
Reflect on a dyadic family relationship (parent-child, partners, siblings)that you consider as well maintained. Describe two specific relational currencies that convey affection on the part of each
Identify three everyday face-to-face or mediated rituals that partners use to connect with each other. How effective are their efforts?
Interview three individuals to provide you with examples of confirmation and disconfirmation in their families.
Observe the use of confirming behaviors in a particular family relationship and indicate the extent to which the receiver appears to recognize the effort. Explain how some attempts at confirmation
Take a position on the following statement: “If you have to work at a relationship, there is something wrong with the relationship.” Give your reasons for the position.
Compare and contrast families with distinctly different relational cultures
Compare and contrast the use of relational currencies in families
Explain the ways in which rituals maintain family identity
Illustrate how respect is conveyed in families
Distinguish among confirming acts of recognition, dialogue, and acceptance
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