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Interactional View
Family Communication
- Family is a system (cybernetic tradition)
- Watzlawick: individuals must be understood within a family system (psychiatry)
- Family (system) supersedes the individual regarding communication within the family
- Relationships: complex functions
- Each family: unique game; unique reality
Axioms of Interpersonal Communication
- Homeostasis: Status quo; strong compulsion to maintain
- Resistance to change: Destructive.
Must understand axioms: "grammar" or rules of "game"
- One cannot not communicate
One cannot not influence
- Communication = content + relationship
Latter determines the former
Meta-communication: Communication about communication
- Early definition: Meta-communication is any relational communication
- Meta-communication dominates when family/relationship in trouble
- "Sick" relationships only get better when members are willing to acknowledge meta-communication
- Relationship depend on "punctuation"
Where does one mark the beginning of an interaction?
Problems arise when individual consistently sees himself as reacting
- All communication is either symmetrical or complementary
Control, status, power are bedrock assumptions of the interactional view
Symmetrical interchanges: predicated on equal power
- Complimentary interchanges: predicated on differential power
- Healthy relationships: both kinds of communication
Rogers: "reciprocal complementarity" - shared dominance - correlates with relational satisfaction
- Must assess an exchange of at least two messages to determine nature of exchange
- Coding system
o One-up communication
o One- down
o One- across
- Rogers: Flexibility highly significant predictor of relational satisfaction
- Family systems are highly resistant to change
- Double binds: competing/contradictory demands on members of the system
- Paradox: High status member demands that low-status member behave as if relationship is symmetrical
o Example: "second shift"
- Reframing: changes the games via the rules
Altering punctuation
Must analyze from outside the system
Adopt a new frame
Usually requires outside assistance
Critique
Modifications:
- Not all nonverbal behavior is communication (i.e, you cannot not communicate). Difference between information and communication
- The term "meta-communication" should be reserved for explicit communication about communication, not all relational communication
Equifinality: Outcomes could be cause by any number of factors and/or combinations of them
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