Definition
Interpersonal relationships may be based on love, regular interaction, inference or solidarity, and may be brief or enduring. All interpersonal relationships can have a profound impact on a person’s overall wellbeing. How connected a person feels to those around them has a significant impact on physical and mental health.
Type of Relationship Difficulties
The romantic relationships can be the most rewarding aspect of being in a relationship, but sometimes conflict is unavoidable in such close relationships. However if it’s not dealt with in a healthy and sensitive way, it can lead to a very painful relationship breakdown and have an impact on a person’s trust in future relationships. Sadly, many couples do not seek help until later in the game, when the end of the relationship may be inevitable.
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According to research, workplace relationships have the power to help or hinder a person’s ability to succeed. Work can take up 50+ hours of a person’s week and therefore developing healthy relationships in the workplace is important for wellbeing. When people in the workplace have different opinions, values, personalities and this is not dealt with in a healthy way, conflict can be damaging. In some cases, learning conflict resolution skills can help.
Healthy family relationships involve members working together to feel safe and connected. Healthy families pull through challenging times and celebrate good times together. Unfortunately, not all families for whatever reason have this dynamic. People can have different beliefs about what makes a family work from their own experiences growing up and despite good intentions, this may cause conflict between adults impacting the strength of the family unit.
Social relationships are part of the larger social network surrounding an individual. This includes both informal and formal relationships, such as friends and community, religious institutions or volunteer organizations. Social connection can benefit a person by increasing their health behavior, provide support and reduce stress. When a person lacks social relationships they can become isolated, which in turn may damage their psychological and physical wellbeing.
Symptoms of Relationships Difficulties
Treatment
Treatment includes working together (in the case of couple’s therapy) or individually to learn healthy communication styles, conflict resolution and build healthy personal boundaries.
The therapeutic relationship is central to Psychodynamic Therapy as it can demonstrate the manner in which the client interacts with his or her friends and loved ones. In addition, transference in therapy—the transferring of one’s feelings for a parent, for example, onto the therapist—can also help illuminate the ways that early-life relationships affect a person today. This intimate look at interpersonal relationships can help a person to see his or her part in relationship patterns and empower him or her to transform that dynamic. On arriving in therapy, couples often see problems as part of their relational identities. These problems have frequently been internalized, embedded in the accounts that couples tell about themselves. When problems disguise themselves as truth they prevent alternatives, exceptions, and possibilities. The problem’s existence is perceived as a given, as if it were determined and immutable.
The Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) method involves learning various strategies to help people develop healthy conflict resolution and increase closeness, respect and affection.
The Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT) adopts the approach focuses on building the couple’s strengths and abilities rather than spending too much time in trying to understand etiology of relational problems.
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