Essay 2: Interpersonal Conflict There is an extensive amount of conflicts that clinicians in the healthcare setting experience with patients, families, and staff, which arise from interpersonal differences. Occurrences of these discords were prevalent during my service as a volunteer at the Mount Sinai Rehabilitation Center, where I observed therapy session of patients who were reluctant, emotional, stressed or had additional illnesses that caused conflict during their treatment. This experience also stimulated recollection of my interpersonal conflicts that included my family and healthcare professionals. From the Fall of 2014 to the Spring of 2016, my mother underwent outpatient psychiatric treatment for Major Depressive Disorder. During
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Comparatively, my mother was concerned with treating her insomnia, Under those circumstances, she became Increasingly reluctant and doubtful of treatment. Whereas, the doctor and I were concerned about her overdependence on sleeping pills. The physican desire was to discourage overdependence because it complicates treatment. I knowingly contributed to this conflict by failing to tell the clinician that my mother had already increased her intake of sleep medication and that she was developing a tolerance. At the moment, I neglected to see the severity of her actions and kept it a secret because I did not want to stop treatment or destroy her trust in me. In the end, my primary concern for her recovery caused me to reveal her secret to the doctor. The doctor was frustrated because of my mother's reluctance for treatment and because she did not follow instructions.
However, a resolution of this disagreement of helping my mother was reached, we were able to identify the problem in our perceptual differences by engaging in a constructive dialogue. The psychiatrist presented a great deal of understanding with my mother's reluctance and openly communicated his reasoning, effectively facilitated our consensus regarding the adverse effects of overdependence on Prescription pills. Although the outcome
Comparatively, my mother was concerned with treating her insomnia, Under those circumstances, she became Increasingly reluctant and doubtful of treatment. Whereas, the doctor and I were concerned about her overdependence on sleeping pills. The physican desire was to discourage overdependence because it complicates treatment. I knowingly contributed to this conflict by failing to tell the clinician that my mother had already increased her intake of sleep medication and that she was developing a tolerance. At the moment, I neglected to see the severity of her actions and kept it a secret because I did not want to stop treatment or destroy her trust in me. In the end, my primary concern for her recovery caused me to reveal her secret to the doctor. The doctor was frustrated because of my mother's reluctance for treatment and because she did not follow instructions.
However, a resolution of this disagreement of helping my mother was reached, we were able to identify the problem in our perceptual differences by engaging in a constructive dialogue. The psychiatrist presented a great deal of understanding with my mother's reluctance and openly communicated his reasoning, effectively facilitated our consensus regarding the adverse effects of overdependence on Prescription pills. Although the outcome