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Casing the Family: Theoretical and Applied Approaches to Understanding Family Communication

Author(s): Sarah Symonds-LeBlanc, Sydney O'Shay

New Second Edition Now Available!There is no one strict definition of family communication, because each family is different.Sarah Symonds LeBlanc and Sydney O’Shay's Casing the Family: Theoretical and Applied Approaches to Understanding Family Communication fuses case studies with communication the...

Family Communication: Relationship Foundations

Author(s): Candice Thomas-Maddox, Nicole Blau

The definition of what a “family” is has changed dramatically over the past few decades…. Family Communication: Relationship Foundations features traditional as well as emerging diverse family types in the application and analysis of communication theories and concepts. From acknowledging the inf...

Intimate Relationships: Where Have We Been? Where Are We Going?

Author(s): Tai J. Mendenhall, Elizabeth Jeanne Plowman, Lisa A. Trump, Pamela D. Dysart

New Edition Now Available!Intimate Relationships: Where have we been? Where are we going? is an innovative text that focuses on the interpersonal dynamics of couples, and on the dynamics of couples in-context. We explore how intimate relationships evolve and develop – and how they succeed or fail. W...

Searching for Solutions: Case Studies & Discussion Questions for Helping Professionals

Author(s): Doe West

In the human service / social science / public service academic realms, we have extensive options for the learning of models and paradigms. This allows us steppingstones to gain an expansive knowledge-base of the issues we face in the workplace. However, until or unless that can be translated to rea...

Gender, Marriage, and Families: From the Individual to the Social

Author(s): Orsolya Kolozsvari

New Edition Now Available! Gender, Marriage, and Families is a unique textbook that can be used as a supplemental reader and workbook in various different courses, such as gender, marriage and families, introduction to sociology, social problems, culture and diversity, norms and deviance, and int...

Validating Parental Strategies as a Bridge to Learning

Author(s): Irene C Cota

At the beginning of each academic school year, educators recommend strategies parents can use to help their children with academic school success: such as parents reading to their children or helping children with their homework. How can working-class, low-income parents who are not literate, or hav...