Widening the Family Circle : New Research on Family Communication

Widening the Family Circle: New Research on Family Communication, Second Edition continues to address historically under-studied family relationships, such as those involving grandparents, in-laws, cousins, stepfamilies, and adoptive parents. In this engaging text, editors Kory Floyd and Mark T. Morman bring together a diverse collection of empirical studies, theoretic essays, and critical reviews of literature on communication to constitute a stronger, more complete understanding of communication within the family. The Second Edition of the cutting edge work, The Handbook of Humanistic Psychology, by Kirk J. Schneider, J. Fraser Pierson and James F.T. Bugental, represents the very latest scholarship in the field of humanistic psychology and psychotherapy. Set against trends inclined toward psychological standardization and medicalization, the handbook offers a rich tapestry of reflection by the leading person-centered scholars of our time. Their range in topics is far-reaching-from the historical, theoretical and methodological, to the spiritual, psychotherapeutic and m This volume addresses historically under-studied family relationships, such as those involving grandparents, in-laws, cousins, stepfamilies, and adoptive parents. The editors bring together a diverse collection of empirical studies, theoretical essays, and critical reviews of literature on communication to constitute a stronger, more complete understanding of communication within the family This title brings together leading family communication researchers to review 12 different types of family relationships, presenting a fuller understanding of relationships that fall outside of the boundaries of traditional family communication textbooks.