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Tricky Situation
Police officers deal with a variety of conflicts in their daily work. Imagine you are an officer trying to decide whether to arrest a parent suspected of child abuse. If you make the arrest, the child may be removed from the home and placed in foster care (not an ideal scenario), but at least the threat of abuse is removed. This is an approach–avoidance conflict—the outcome has both positive and negative elements.
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