Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Knapp's Relational Development Model




(Part II of previous post!)

Knapp Model of Relational Development (by Mark Knapp) - explains the development of a relationship as a series of 10 stages in 2 phases; namely, Coming Together and Coming Apart.

Coming together:

1. Initiating

2. Experimenting

3. Intensifying

4. Integrating

5. Bonding


Coming Apart:

6. Differentiaitng

7. Circumscrbing

8. Stagnating

9. Avoiding

10. Termination.



1 comment:

Aya said...

I feel that the coming together and falling apart stage actually happen a lot during our daily life. No matter how hard we try to treasure the relationship, we still can't avoid being separated at last.