Barriers to Communication

Changing the conversation to another topic

• ordering

• blaming

• preaching

• diverting

• ridiculing

Name-calling or making fun of the

• ordering

• blaming

• preaching

• diverting

• ridiculing

Telling the person what he or she should do

• ordering

• blaming

• preaching

• diverting

• ridiculing

Telling the person to do something or act in a certain manner.

• ordering

• blaming

• preaching

• diverting

• ridiculing

Placing the responsibility on the other person for the situation that he or she is in

• ordering

• blaming

• preaching

• diverting

• ridiculing

" I will not talk to a Republican (or a Democrat)

• low self esteem

• intense emotion

• noising enviornoment

• closed mind

• religious prejudice

I'm not going down that hallway where the popular group hangs out.

• low self esteem

• intense emotion

• noising enviornoment

• closed mind

• religious prejudice

All teens are irresponsible

• gender prejudice

• age prejudice

• noising enviornoment

• closed mind

• religious prejudice

Only men can be good mechanics

• gender prejudice

• age prejudice

• noising enviornoment

• closed mind

• religious prejudice

I hate that nickname

• gender prejudice

• age prejudice

• noising enviornoment

• low self-esteem

• intense emotion