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The stages of relationships was created by Mark Knapp. It is also known as the relational stages (Adler and Proctor II, 253). Coming together and coming apart are two broad phases within the model. It is also joined by relational maintenance. The goal of relational maintenance is to keep relationships operating smoothly and satisfactory (Adler and Proctor II, 253). Initiating, experimenting, intensifying, integrating, bonding, differentiating, circumscribing, stagnating, avoiding, and terminating are the ten stages within these three phases. Out of all of those stages, the relationship I have with my mom is currently on the stagnating stage. During Thanksgiving break, our relationship has reverted back to how it originally was before my brother…

about a month ago due to the amount of arguing that was occurring. After analyzing our relationship, I realized that we touched each of these stages, initiating, experimenting, intensifying, integrating, differentiating, circumscribing, stagnating,…

fifth stage of a group development. In 1977 Dr Tuckman study the behaviour of small groups in different environments and he notes that groups go through five different stages in order to achieve the highest effectiveness. (Martin et al., 2006) Forming This is the first stage when group member has their first contact as group is an introductory stage, where people want to be accepted by the other member of the group and they try to keep away from any conflict by being polite and positive. At…

A situation where I experienced all six stages of Brommel’s Stages of the Conflictual Process is with an ex-boyfriend of two years. In the beginning of our dating process he had an ex-girlfriend that he still had feelings for which influenced him to stay in contact with her without my knowledge. Four months in he disappeared on me and cut all communication off with me. I then discovered that it was due to him returning to dating his ex-girlfriend. This made me livid. But after two weeks he…

In the first stage of Knapp’s Stages of Relational Development is Initializing. It is the beginning of a relationship in which you met each other as acquaintance. It is also known as the coming together in Knapp’s stage of Relational development. Initializing is the beginning of a new relationship and it is a stage that all relationships go through. (Alder, Rodman, & du pre, 2014, p.208). Being part of a team is part of forming a relationship. In 5th grade I joined the little league soccer team,…

The stages-of-change model of health behavior provides six stages that are useful when it comes to making changes for yourself or helping to motivate others. “The stages-of-change model has been successfully applied to numerous behavioral health risks and has helped people with multiple risk factors make progress in changing several at the same time” (Knickman & Kovner, 2015, p. 128). The stages-of-change model is helpful model when it comes to treatment of health behavior because it does not…

The Stages of Change Model has been applied to a broad range of behaviors that include; weight loss, injury prevention and overcoming addiction (Prochaska et al., 1994). I am most familiar with this model in the substance abuse setting. The Stages of Change Model consists of five stages which are; pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action and maintenance (Norcross & Prochaska, 2001). Pre-contemplation: Clients that are in this stage within the model are not acknowledging that there…

To examine the evolution of stage management, we must first examine how the term came about, and other terms for the stage managers predecessors. Then we can begin to look into how the role has evolved over time into the present craft students are being taught on technical production courses in theatre in different locations around the world. To begin, we must investigate the term of ‘stage management’. As we look back into history, we can see that people who were what we know today as stage…

Group topic: Stages of Change PO showed up on time for group and moderately participated in the group activities that include: learning the stages of change model and its characteristic of each stage; identifying which stage of change she is presently in; discussing how to progress to the next stage of change. PO stated that she is in the action stage of change, “Because I am making changes in my life to become a better person. I have made somewhat of a plan/goal for myself and I am doing…

In his book titles, Managing Conflict in the Church, David Kale lists five levels of conflict; 1”Awareness of Differences, Confronting the Differences, Power Struggles, Fight or Flight, and Intractable.” As I offer the following explanation, I’ll attempt to do so parallel to Prochaska and DiClemente’s six stage transtheoretical model of change. This model consists of the following levels or stages of change, pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, action, maintenance and relapse.…