CONFLICT

By: Dejah Frazier, Jamaia Lewis, JT Herda, Elizabeth Putnam, Alanna

Reeves, and Madison Beaupre
Introduction
• We chose conflict for our presentation
• Conflict is a serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted
one.
• Concepts we cover:
• What is the effect of conflict on relationships?
• How do we manage conflict?
• How should we manage conflict?
• We chose to use two clips from Modern Family in order to give you a
visual of conflict.
What is the effect of conflict on relationships?
• At home
• Positive effects: intimacy increases, trust increases, healthy growth.
• Negative effects: stress, poor physical and/or mental health, and distrust of
partner.
• Kids can be extremely effected to family conflict. They are highly prone to
depression and anxiety disorders if exposed to frequent conflict as children.

• At work
• Positive effects: Problem solving, teaches us to listen, practice our communication
skills, practice our emotional control.
• Negative effects: hostile work environment, loss of trust, stress, decreased
productivity.
• Don't bring work conflicts into your home life. Keep work issues at work.
How do we manage conflict?
• John Gottman: Strategies
of Dissatisfied couples
• Cross Complaining
• Arguing about how the
other partner is arguing
• Negative body language
• Bad solutions that do
not match the other
partners needs
• Modern Family, the kids
and the parents
• The kids are using cross complaining
• Claire and the daughters use negative affect
• Claire argued about how the girls are arguing
• Counter proposed solution that is incompatible with the situation was used by Luke
and Claire
 How should we manage conflict?
• You should understand your own
conflict management skills.
• Competition
• Avoidance
• Collaboration
• Accomodation
• Be willing to compromise
• Respect others conflict styles
 Conclusion
We manage conflict by the dissatisfied strategies
Overall,
that John Gottman created which were
The effect of conflict in relationships could be both
negative and positive.
• Cross Complaining
-Negative effects could be • Arguing about the argument
• Loss of trust • Negative body language
• Bad solutions that do not match the
• Stress
other partners needs
• Decrease in productivity.
-Positive effects could be We should manage conflict by:
• Active Listening -Respecting others conflict styles
• Emotional control -Learn your own conflict management skills.
• Improvement regarding communication skills • Competition
• Growing healthy- physically and mentally. • Avoidance
• Collaboration
• Accomodation
 Sources
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vtsRyaD9Go
• https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/279778