Communication: A Tool for Building Healthy Family Relationship within the Family’s System
Keywords:
Family, System, Interdependency, Interaction, Communication, Resolution and Role.Abstract
This paper attempts to emphases on the need of using communication as a tool to strengthen the family from the systems theory perspective. It looks at family and communication concepts and concentrates on how subsystems of the family system can
perform their individual yet collective roles by making use of effective communication which of course is also a system within the family system.
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