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RELATIONAL DIALECTICS THEORY
(RDT)
-Explain human interactions;…
RELATIONAL DIALECTICS THEORY
(RDT)
-Explain human interactions; believes relationship between human are always changing, tensions that occur are normal and good clear is necessary to sustian positive productive interpersonal relationships
CONTRADICTION
Within relationships, we often across two wants, needs or desires that are contradictory
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Eg: With my parents, I want them to be available to me whenever I need them, but I also don't want them to constantly be in my life
TOTALITY
Believes that you should look at the "totality" of the contradictions in a relationship to see the challneges that exist and how to address them
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Dumlao and Janke (2012, p.156): totality, another core concept in relational dialectics, emphasizes the idea that the social world is a service of irrelated contradictions (means all all the contradictions we might experience in a relationship can impact each other)
(i) Internal contradictions: two people in relationship have contradictory needs, wants and desires
(ii) External contradictions: the needs, wants and desires of people with the relationship contradict within the needs, wants and desires of people outside of the relationship
PROCESS
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We can resolve some contradiction but others may arise, sometimes a contradiction may be remedied for just a short period of time but it may turn up again
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Our feelings,needs, wants and desires may change. Sometimes, you want intimacy and other times you want alone time
PRAXIS
Words that can how er act in relationship; we can either accept and accommodate the other person's needs or act out negatively when tensions occur
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Used to talk about the ways we behave in relationships to either ease, ignore or exacerbate (make worse) the tensions that currently exist
Dumlao and Janke (2012, p. 157) explain praxis:
“praxis refers to ways people respond to ongoing tensions” (e.g. competing discourses)