Ambiguity

approach to ambiguous loss are constructed by a primary family-systems framework, with strong psych education to help re-frame. She also coins a dialectical approach for ambiguous loss that will help the client learn to “tolerate the tension of the ambiguity and cognitive coping strategies” (2006). Boss promoted, when beginning work with clients, that therapists establish the structure of the “psychological family”. In her conceptualization, the psychological family extends beyond the physical…

The crisis counselor needs to have a tolerance for ambiguity. We need to walk into any circumstance without personal opinions or feeling for the event. For an example, if we walked into a scene where there had been a traumatic event. We have to be able to bring back a sense of order from a chaotic scene with none of our own biases. We also need to keep a calm, neutral demeanor when going into a high stress situation or we would permit ourselves to be swept away from our own emotional reactions…

In some contexts, ambiguous messages are definitely unethical. I don’t consider ambiguity in personal relationships to be severely unethical, because minor noise disruption in the transactional model and homonym usage, language disparity, etc. is normally expected. However, when looking at communications on an international scale, ambiguity can lead to disastrous results in foreign relations and the trust placed in governments by their country’s people. The novelist George Orwell, who wrote…

The denial of ambiguity and uncertainty by the psychologically rigid subject is precisely what allows for authoritarian personalities to arise. Since the psychologically rigid subject organizes her experiences in terms of rigid categories, she is incapable of dealing with people who do not necessarily fit the mold. The psychologically rigid person either denies that certain phenomena resist or are resistant to rigid categorization or they react hostilely towards whatever exception there is to…

result. Deduction is found to be a process of elimination type of situation. A fallacy is mistaken reasoning of something or something that has misleading information or content. An example of a fallacy is ambiguity, “word, phrase, or statement which contains more than one meaning,” Ambiguity can be confusing because a writer can be saying one thing that have two different meaning so you are unaware of the actually meaning. If the author was to say that Susan, Brittany, and Claire all saw…

Great Expectations written by Charles Dickens focuses on the struggle of an orphan to fulfill his great expectations. Pip has been influenced throughout his life by different characters in the novel. Characters with a moral ambiguity are especially influential because they use fear and love to influence an individual. Abel Magwitch influences Pip’s character by his interaction as a convict, role of benefactor, and his own death. Pip first met Abel Magwitch in the marshes near the church; he was…

Chapter 6: Key words definition 1. Ambiguity (in advertising) 2. Caveat emptor: the principle that the buyer alone is responsible for checking the quality and suitability of goods before a purchase is made. 3. Concealment of facts (in advertising) 4. Consumer Product Safety Commission: This is a U.S. government agency that protects the American public from products that may create a potential hazard to safety. The Consumer Product Safety Commission focuses on consumer products…

such loss is difficult to measure and quantify. According to Minnesota Management & Budget [MMB] (2013), there are several potential aftermaths of poor communication. First, it might breakdown the internal control. If employees experience role ambiguity in the organization 's internal control, there is a possibility that employees ignore the responsibilities without considering the consequences. Ultimately such breakdown, misunderstandings, confusions affects the overall control structure of…

The school board is arguing with the ambiguity of the word sex. They are also arguing that the “Dear Colleague” letter by the Obama administration should be considered unconstitutional due to the fact that they overstepped their powers in redefining the word sex in Title IX to make sex refer…

At the conclusion of WWII, the United States developed and released the atomic bomb on Japan. As the most devastating bombs in history dropped on Hiroshima the world changed. The atomic age ushered in new and devastating weapons of mass destruction. It was then that world became tinted in fear at the uncertainty of this new age. It was not long until the Soviet Union tested and released its own weapons of annihilation. The arms race began. The two opposing giants of the 20th Century squared…