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Divorce, Communications Deterioration, and Conflict Avoidance By Children
Dealing effectively with situations involving interpersonal conflict requires the development and use of interpersonal communication skills. Interpersonal communication is defined as the process linking discontinuous living entities with one another (Kaplan & Sadock, 1995). Communication is made possible by the combined effects of perception, evaluation, and expression.
The social process of interpersonal communication involves three sets of determinantsùsensory, environmental, and psychological. The deterioration of the quality of parent-child communications in family environments characterized by divorce is associated primarily with the latter two sets of determinants. Environmental determinants are the people and the social systems with which an individual is associated, while psychological determinants are the ways in which an individual's experiences affects her or his knowledge, skills, and methods of adaptation (Kaplan & Sadock,
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