Family Stories and the Life Course: Across Time and Generations
Language: English
Published by Routledge, Mahwah, N.J, 2004
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Shows minor wear to the cover and pages. Pages have highlighting/margin notes/underlining or any combination. The binding is fully intact and secure. This is a good reading or studying copy and has been verified that all pages are legible. 100% satisfaction guaranteed! --- Edited by Michael W. Pratt and Barbara H. Fiese, this collection of psychological research looks at family storytelling: how stories are told, what they contain and how they are built. It also traces how the practice of telling them connects to language acquisition, the regulation of emotion and patterns of interaction within the family. It is arranged in six sections that follow the life cycle in order. The first deals with young children's narrative skill, competence and attachment, and later sections cover adolescence, young adulthood and midlife. The book ends with grandparenthood and the meaning stories carry between generations. An opening chapter by the editors sets out an ecological and developmental framework, drawing on Erikson's account of development and on ideas of the family life cycle. Individual chapters cover the ways parents shape how children narrate, family narratives and children's well-being, and parents telling their own past wrongdoing to teenagers. Others examine how adolescents carry their parents' voices and value lessons into their own identities, preschool-era stories of parents growing up, storytelling practices in Taiwanese families, and grandparents' accounts of the rewards and difficulties of the role.…
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- Title
- Family Stories and the Life Course: Across Time and Generations
- Author
- Michael W. Pratt; Barbara H. Fiese
- Publisher
- Routledge, Mahwah, N.J
- Publication year
- 2004
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0805842829
- ISBN 13
- 9780805842821
- Item weight
- 2.6 pounds
- Dimensions
- 14.0 x 14.0 x 4.0 inches
- Seller catalogs
- Philosophy & Psychology, Psychology
This edited book draws from work that focuses on the act of telling family stories, as well as their content and structure. The process of telling family stories is linked to central aspects of development, including language acquisition, affect regulation, and family interaction patterns. This book extends across traditional developmental psychology, personality theory, and family studies.
Drawing broadly on the epigenetic framework for individual development articulated by Erik Erikson, as well as on conceptions of the family life cycle, the editors bring together contemporary examples of psychological research on family stories and their implications for development and change at different points in the life course. The book is divided into sections that focus on family stories at different points in the life cycle, from early childhood and the beginnings of narrative skill, through adolescence, young adulthood, midlife, and then mature adulthood and its intergenerational meaning. During each of these periods of the life cycle, research focusing on individual development within an Eriksonian framework of ego strengths and virtues is highlighted. The dynamic role of family stories is also featured here, with work exploring the links between family process, intergenerational attachment, and storytelling. Sociocultural theories that emphasize how such development is situated in the wider cultural context are also featured in several chapters. This broad lifespan developmental focus serves to integrate the exciting diversity of this work and foster further questions and research in the emerging field of family narrative.
The book is intended primarily for researchers and advanced-level students in the fields of developmental and personality psychology, as well as those in family studies and in gerontology. It may also be of interest to those in the helping professions who are concerned with family therapy and family issues, and may--due to its content and illustrative material--have appeal to a wider market of the lay public. The chapters are written in a readily accessible style and the analyses are presented in a fairly non-technical way. Because family stories are charted across the lifespan, it would be a suitable companion book to a more traditional lifespan textbook in certain courses.
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