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Family Communication: Nurturing and Control in a Changing World
Beth A. Le Poire
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Description for Family Communication: Nurturing and Control in a Changing World
paperback. Reviews the traditional family communication theories of roles theory, family systems theory, and rules theory. This book organizes the study of family communication around the concepts of nurturing and control in the family relationships, across various family forms, and their relationships to psychological processes and communicative outcomes. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: CJB; GTC; JHBK. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 251 x 176 x 20. Weight in Grams: 642.
Family Communication: Nurturing and Control in a Changing World thoroughly reviews the traditional family communication theories of roles theory, family systems theory, and rules theory in an engaging, non-traditional way. This book uniquely organizes the study of family communication around the concepts of nurturing and control in all family relationships, across all family forms, and their relationships to psychological processes and communicative outcomes in families.
Key Features:
Perfect for the introductory undergraduate course in Family Communication; as well as courses in Sociology, Social and Clinical Psychology, Educational Psychology, Family Counseling, Family Education, and Home Economics Show Less
Family Communication: Nurturing and Control in a Changing World thoroughly reviews the traditional family communication theories of roles theory, family systems theory, and rules theory in an engaging, non-traditional way. This book uniquely organizes the study of family communication around the concepts of nurturing and control in all family relationships, across all family forms, and their relationships to psychological processes and communicative outcomes in families.
Key Features:
- Looks at Family in All Forms: Traditional nuclear; non-traditional nuclear; bi-nuclear families; cohabitation, single-parent households; step-family and blended configurations; gay families; couples with no children; and extended families are ... Read more
- Explores Sociological and Psychological Factors: Various forces such as governmental, religious, media influences, and social science research, cause us to assume most families are traditional and nuclear, using biological, legal, and sociological definitions. In addition to the sociological and psychological bases of developmental processes, the development of parental attachment is fully discussed, showing how nurturing and controlling communication processes encourage socio-emotional competence in children.
- Explicates New Research Findings: A new family communication theory—Inconsistent Nurturing as Control Theory—explores the ways in which family members attempt to change the undesirable behaviors of a particular family member (e.g., substance abuser, eating disordered individual, gambler, depressed person, violent individual) through their use of nurturing as control.
Perfect for the introductory undergraduate course in Family Communication; as well as courses in Sociology, Social and Clinical Psychology, Educational Psychology, Family Counseling, Family Education, and Home Economics Show Less
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
SAGE Publications, Inc United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Thousand Oaks, United States
ISBN
9781412904063
SKU
V9781412904063
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About Beth A. Le Poire
Beth Le Poire (Ph.D., University of Arizona; M.A., University of Arizona; B. A., California State University, Stanislaus) is full professor in the department of communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has 40 published works across communication in such journals as Human Communication Research and Communication Monographs. In family communication, her work looks specifically at parental and romantic ... Read more
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