Lets see -

Problem in the depression management group -
Male had a problem with roommate/girlfriend wants more sex and roommates child not doing assigned chores problems

Problem solving -
sit down with roommate and discuss the problem
Give roommate information about depression and medication he is on.
sit down with rooommates child and discuss the chores and why child did not want to do them
make sure chores are age appropiate.
ask roommate and child to move out
move out yourself

The next week came same complaint child still not doing chores when asked the answer was no he did not sit down and same roommate girlfriend problems. when asked if he tried any of the ideas discussed the week before the answer was no.

Conflict resolution -
confliction - the child is not doing the chores and male in group felt he should contribute to helping in the home by at least keeping childs things in childs room.

Resolution ideas -
sit down with child and discuss the situation and find out why the child will not do the chores.
Sit down with the roommate/girlfriend and discus the situation
Ask roommate and child to move out
move yourself out.

Confliction - roommate/girlfriend feels she needs more sex from him, he cannot get it up as often as she wants due to depression and medication

Resolution -
Talk with roommate/girlfriend and supply information about depression and the medication he is on.

Sounds like the same process to me -

Both contain a problem or in your words a conflict and ideas for solving the situation or in your words a resolution.

Yes means the same to me.

By the way this thread is about whining and my views on what I consider whining and what I do to protect myself from being pulled into someone elses need for whining stands. I believe a person does not need to whine and do nothing. That is not going to solve the situation regardless of if it is called conflict resolution or problem solving. Regardless of the wording "problem solving" or "conflct resolution" the problems in life only get solved by doing something about that problem. Whining just keeps the person stuck in the same place.

For example my problem with a DHS caseworker. My complaining was not going to do any bit of good. It was only after I used my problem solving skills (other wise known as conflict resolution process) and doing something about the problem by documenting and then submitting documentation to all three branches of DHS, the district supervisor and the civil rights office which started an investigation into that caseworker. then the outcome of that investigation lead to her being fired from this states DHS offices. I could have whined and whined and whined to people about the situation but all that would have got was people against me and not paying attention to what I had to say about the situation. It was action that solved the situation not whining.

I could while all day long that my back hurts and I am dissocaited but my sitting here whining about it won't fix it. but taking medication for my back and doing things to reconnect with my senses will fix the situation so I touched different textured things, tasted a different variety of foods, went for a walk noticing all the differnet things I could see, stopped to smell some lilacs on the way and so on. My back is no longer hurting so I know that the medication is working and I am no longer dissociated so I know I am on the right track.