Interpersonal Conflict Communication Analysis

Improving your conflict management skills are key to interpersonal relationships. However, actors rehearse and play major roles on television where conflicts are viewed to help portray the real side of television. How you handle the conflict that determines the situation at hand. I like to watch Blackish sometimes while watching season three episode nine. I realize how interpersonal conflicts on television relate to real life is so many ways. It is so clear and concise how the expressed struggle plays out. I will describe how improving your conflict management skills, would have been a better way to handle the situation. When a family is involved interpersonal conflict is always present; it depends on each to be a good listener and giver of social support. According to Bevan and Sole (2014), another specific way to communicate more empathically is to engage in active-empathic listening, which occurs when a listener is genuinely focused and emotionally involved in a particular interaction. When the older daughter Zoey wants assistance from her parents to gain an internship at one of the companies her parents are employed causes conflict. The interpersonal conflict is mom wants to help Zoey with the internship and dad wants her to work for it. …show more content…
He could have improved his conflict management skills by identifying Zoey’s needs and focusing on her positive emotions. As the adult, he was responsible for recognizing and acknowledging if the conflict was resolvable (Bevan and Sole, 2014). Dad could have used simple father skills, like giving Zoey a hug, or verbal acknowledgment to calm her down; then have a conversation with her to see what interest she possessed. A second way, dad could have avoided conflict was to increase his awareness of his own communication behaviors (Bevan and Sole,