The Developmental Psychology of Personal Relationships (Wiley Series on Social and Personal Relationships) - Softcover

Rosemary S. L. Mills

Softcover

ISBN 10: 047199880X ISBN 13: 9780471998808

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2000

Synopsis

These are the first two volumes in an important new five–book series derived from sections of the international bestseller, Handbook of Personal Relationships, Second Edition, by Steve Duck. The purpose of the series is to allow professionals and students easy access to state–of–the–art theory and practice in specific areas of personal relationships—an increasingly popular field of research and therapeutic practice that focuses on the processes by which individuals relate to each other in social and family settings. Each paperback is an updated and expanded version of its corresponding section in the Handbook, and contains several new chapters that provide a greater breadth of coverage.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

This book is concerned not with the way specific relationships developbut rather with the way individuals learn to relate to other people. A basic premise guiding theory and research in this area is that the most formative learning experiences are relationship experiences. Our ways of relating to other people are largely determined by the reationships in which we have participated.
Attempts to understand the nature of the processes involved in learning to relate to others have gradually been moving beyond accounts of specific types of relationships (parent–child, peer, sibling) to include the identification of linkages across different relationships. This has stimulated new ideas and new research on the processes of relationship learning. The contributors to this volume review these recent advancements and point to challenging directions for the future.
This volume provides a useful reference for professionals whose research and/or clinical practice focuses on personal relationships. This book is also intended for advanced students in the areas of developmental psycholgy, clinical and counseling psychology, communication studies, family studies, and sociology.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 047199880X
• ISBN 13: 9780471998808
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 304
• Editor: Rosemary S. L. Mills, Steve Duck