Primary Approach To Conflict Analysis

Introduction Through the exercise done in class I found that I am a person who is more likely to collaborate with an individual during a conflict. I believe this to be pertinent to the way that I see myself when conflicted. My back up is accommodation, which is something that I see myself doing more often now that I have chosen a path of policing. I think that both of these reflect exceptionally on the way that I handle conflicts throughout my life. Being a police officer means having the ability to defend yourself when you are right, but also having the ability to understand another individual and being able to cooperate and attend to their needs. Sometimes a person who just experienced a traumatic experience would rather cooperate and collaborate with you rather than compete with you.
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The experiment done in class showed that my primary approach to conflict is collaborating. It then showed that my back up would be accommodation. I find these to reflect how I handle conflict in the ways that I would much rather continue a healthy relationship with the person than conflict with them. Both of the ways that approach conflict have positive outcomes associated with them. This is shown during a situation I had with a fellow co-worker who was using a derogatory term towards people from the United States. I grew up in …show more content…
I find that having disagreements and arguments with others is healthy. In my own experience with my girlfriend a fight often brings us closer together after we realize that how stubborn we were behaving over something that isn’t worth losing our relationship over. We often fight and then talk about what caused it. Things that are brought up during this are usually school, family and work stresses that we chose to keep in but are choosing to take it out on each other. I do not think we would be in the kind of healthy relationship we are in today without some sort of conflict throughout