For this assignment, select a relationship in which you sense the emotional bank account is in the red. Interview and record your conversation with the person. Transcribe word for word what you recorded. After you have transcribed the conversation, try to understand and write down the situation from the other person's point of view. After talking with the other person, determine if your assumptions were valid? Once you have completed this preliminary work, it is now time to write about the encounter and how you used empathic communication skills.

In less than 4 typed double spaced pages, describe the situation, provide quotes from the interview that support the fact that the emotional bank account was in the red in this relationship. Detail how you used empathic communication approaches and skills to enhance your understanding of this relationship. Give some examples of how you used autobiographical responses such as probing, evaluating, advising, and interpreting.