A Victory of Women's Health: Rev. Dr. Tracie Saunders' Story Flashcards
Triangulation
A communication pattern where one person avoids direct interaction with another, instead using a third person as an intermediary, serves as a manipulative strategy to control or gain power, third person ends up bearing the emotional weight of the conflict and may also be forced to act as a messenger between the two.
Self-Victimization
The fabrication or exaggeration of victimhood for a variety of reasons such as to justify abuse to others, to manipulate others, a coping strategy, attention seeking or diffusion of responsibility
Emotional Explosiveness
Marked by frequent outbursts of anger or aggression, usually not ware of their own reactions and actions till they have cooled down from the situation.
Enabling
Third parties take responsibility or blame, or make accomodations for a person’s ineffective or harmful conduct which shields the person from awareness of the harm it may do, and the need or pressure to change.
Microaggressions
Discriminatory acts that affect individual targets and reside in the individual biases, beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors of individuals.
Macroaggressions
Discriminatory acts that affect whole classes of groups of populations and reside in the structures, programs, policies of institutions, society, and our customs.
Toxic Rationalizations
An ego defense in which apparent logical reasons are given to justify unacceptable behavior that is motivated by unconscious impulses.
(Ex. “Straight A’s will make them love me” “I thought that my success would radiate to them, that they would welcome it”
What are Rev. Dr. Saunders’ Four Agreements of Professionalism?
- Make no assumptions about anyone
- Take no offense; don’t be offended by people who don’t celebrate your wins
- Be impeccable with your words
- Do excellent work; no fake it till you make it
