What Is The Dialectical Perspective In Family Communication

For the family interview I choose to interview my mom Laura Mahlich. I choose to interview her because she is the main person my sisters and I always turn to when we have an issue or when we need someone to talk to. When being home over the weekend I asked her if she would like to sit down with me and answer interview questions about how our family communicates and interacts with one another. I asked ten open-ended questions that lead to a long discussion and talk about our family’s communications skills. Most of the questions I asked were relating to how our family communicates and what are our strengths and weaknesses we may have. Then to end some of my questions I asked about her weaknesses she may have with communicating and interacting …show more content…
One of the questions I asked her was, what are some of the strengths in our family communication, and at first she we all kind of suck at communicating. But, what she did say is that even though we all stick to our own wits and live really busy lives we still always talk to one another. Even if there are problems and one of us is arguing with the other we never stop communicating. Which is a positive for us she said because it helps our family quarrels end faster and not to let them drag on. Dialectical perspective tells us that with the autonomy versus connectedness tension that we may all live independent lives we also are connected. How we manage this is with a happy balance by always talking to each other even though we are upset at them. By finding a middle ground to help manage our tensions we can find a happy middle …show more content…
What I thought was different was it took her awhile to think of who in our family is the better communicator because she has never really thought about that. What she did come up with is her mom and her stepdad. She believes that her parents are the better communicators in our family and when asked to explain she said it was because they have learned to patient over their years. Not just communicating and interacting with us, but also with other people and they have taken their knowledge and have tried to share it with us. Also, that they are less judgmental about people and what they may have to say. They are more understanding people where they actually take the time to listen to you and here you out before they actually say anything. This can tie in with the tension disclosure versus privacy. Since her parents are the best communicators they are good to open up to and be honest with. They are also good to talk to because they understand that by keeping some things to yourself is okay and they