Reflective Essay: Discussing Conflict Management In Class
Psychology exam essay// Conflict Management
Discussing conflict management in class has helped me learn how to create safety and make the situation better, and not worse. It has helped me make fights with my parents shorter, less intense, and calmer. I’ve learned to control my anger in stressful situations like these. I’ve also learned to not act out my emotions, but to simply state your opinions, and accept responsibilities. Creating emotional safety can mean so much in a crucial conversation, it can save your relationships. To create emotional safety you have to make sure they feel comforted in the situation, and let them know your intentions (“im just telling you that i’m not trying to hurt you.”). Knowing to create emotional safety has helped me alot during arguments with my parents. Like for example, My family and i were sitting at our sunday family dinner, (which includes all 8 of my siblings plus two parents), and i was watching a youtube video about donald trump and what he is doing wrong. Once my family saw this, they all started speeches about why they think donald trump …show more content…
My best friend has many problems at home, and with other people i know. I know she needs someone there for her, and she feels alone. But sometimes, she will just bring it out on me, with her words (usually to other people). Knowing this, we were sitting in my room watching netflix and when she got up to go to the bathroom i was still on her phone, i looked at the app called “notes” and saw some things about me ‘not having any friends’ (and more) but instead of telling her i read it, i decided to just let it go. I texted her a few days later about it, and she apologized about 1000 times. She said she didn’t write it to hurt me, but to let out some anger she was holding in her from some past experiences. It hurt me, but knowing her intentions made the situation way
Discussing conflict management in class has helped me learn how to create safety and make the situation better, and not worse. It has helped me make fights with my parents shorter, less intense, and calmer. I’ve learned to control my anger in stressful situations like these. I’ve also learned to not act out my emotions, but to simply state your opinions, and accept responsibilities. Creating emotional safety can mean so much in a crucial conversation, it can save your relationships. To create emotional safety you have to make sure they feel comforted in the situation, and let them know your intentions (“im just telling you that i’m not trying to hurt you.”). Knowing to create emotional safety has helped me alot during arguments with my parents. Like for example, My family and i were sitting at our sunday family dinner, (which includes all 8 of my siblings plus two parents), and i was watching a youtube video about donald trump and what he is doing wrong. Once my family saw this, they all started speeches about why they think donald trump …show more content…
My best friend has many problems at home, and with other people i know. I know she needs someone there for her, and she feels alone. But sometimes, she will just bring it out on me, with her words (usually to other people). Knowing this, we were sitting in my room watching netflix and when she got up to go to the bathroom i was still on her phone, i looked at the app called “notes” and saw some things about me ‘not having any friends’ (and more) but instead of telling her i read it, i decided to just let it go. I texted her a few days later about it, and she apologized about 1000 times. She said she didn’t write it to hurt me, but to let out some anger she was holding in her from some past experiences. It hurt me, but knowing her intentions made the situation way