You Have Learned That While Effective Communication Can Enhance Relationships

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Essay

You have learned that while effective communication can enhance relationships, ineffective or inappropriate communication can hinder or even destroy a relationship. Synthesizing what you have learned from this chapter and others, provide advice about what relational partners should and should not do in each stage of relationship development from initiation through the declining stage.

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Definitions:

Deep Depression

A severe form of depression marked by intense feelings of sadness, hopelessness, and a lack of interest or pleasure in most activities.

Alleviate

To make something, such as pain or hardship, less severe or more bearable.

Mourning

The process of expressing grief and sorrow for someone who has died, often accompanied by rituals or other outward signs of grief.

Adolescents

Individuals in the developmental stage between childhood and adulthood, often categorized as those between the ages of 13 and 19.