The Routledge Handbook of Family Communication (Routledge Communication Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415881986 ISBN 13: 9780415881982

Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

With a synthesis of research on issues key to understanding family interaction, as well as an analysis of many theoretical and methodological choices made by researchers studying family communication, the Handbook serves to advance the field by reframing old questions and stimulating new ones. The contents are comprised of chapters covering:

• theoretical and methodological issues influencing current conceptions of family;
• research and theory centering around the family life course
• communication occurring in a variety of family forms
• individual family members and their relationships
• dynamic communication processes taking place in families
• family communication embedded in social, cultural, and physical contexts.

Key changes to the second edition include:

• updates throughout, providing a thorough and up-to-date overview of research and theory
• new topics reflecting the growth of the discipline, including chapters on "singles" as family members, emerging adults, and physiology and physical health.

Highlighting the work of scholars across disciplines--communication, social psychology, clinical psychology, sociology, family studies, and others--this volume captures the breadth and depth of research on family communication and family relationships. The well-known contributors approach family interaction from a variety of theoretical perspectives and focus on topics ranging from the influence of structural characteristics on family relationships to the importance of specific communication processes.

About this title

About the Author:

Anita L. Vangelisti is the Jesse H. Jones Centennial Professor of Communication at the University of Texas at Austin. Her work focuses on the associations between communication and emotion in the context of close, personal relationships, and she currently teaches courses on communication in personal relationships, family communication, communication and emotion, and empirical research methods. Vangelisti has published articles in journals such as Communication Monographs, Human Communication Research, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Personal Relationships, Family Relations, Journal of Adolescent Research, and Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. She has published several books and is presently working on two more volumes.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0415881986
• ISBN 13: 9780415881982
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 616
• Editor: Vangelisti Anita L.