Casing the Family: Theoretical and Applied Approaches to Understanding Family Communication
Edition: 2
Copyright: 2023
Pages: 343
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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 theories to examine various family types and scenarios that US families encounter. By examining the family and the scenario from each case study, students are able to critically analyze and discuss a “safe” family.
Featuring 28 expertly written case studies, Casing the Family, is divided into six comprehensive sections:
- Health Tensions examines diet culture and body image, family health literacy, tensions around invisible illness in parent-adult child relationships, and more.
- Theory Based Studies features readings on using stigma management communication theory to understand the impact of opioid use on the family, social support and privacy management, the superhero power of working moms, among a plethora of other topics.
- Work, Military Life, and Families discusses military sexual trauma and the family, uncertainty and information management within a military family during and after a deployment, the impact of identity and agency on structuration, and more.
- Taboo Topics presents parent-child sexual communication within discourse dependent families, menstrual communication in the family, making politics taboo, and intergenerational family communication about sexual activity and health.
- Unique Issues within Family Communication includes readings on in-law relationships and relational turbulence theory, communication (non) accommodation in interfaith family relationships, language convergence and meaning divergence in an intercultural family, among others.
- Difficulties in Communication that Strike Families discusses negotiating complicated family relationships and estrangement, discourse dependency in foster families, using facework to examine complicated conversations in mother-daughter relationships, post-divorce coparenting during a global pandemic, and more.
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Kathy Denker and Jimmie Manning
Health Tensions
Tensions around Invisible Illness in Parent-Adult Child Relationships
Maria Hannah and Andrea Meluch
Diet Culture and Memorable Messages: Navigating Body Image, Eating Habits, and Well-being through Parent-Child Communication
Ellen Jordan
Family Health Literacy: Application of the Family Caregiver Communication Typology in Chronic Illness
Elaine Wittenberg, Joy Goldsmith, and Melissa Rios
Family Communication within (In)Voluntary Work Exit.
Anne Kerber and Marya Wilson
Theory Based Studies
Communication Theory of Identity: (Re)Negotiating Who We Are in Our Families
Kaitlin E. Phillips
Using Stigma Management Communication Theory to Understand the Impact of Opioid Use on the Family
Sydney O’Shay and Emily Pasman
“I don’t want to be judged”: Social Support and Privacy Management
Tennley Vik and Jocelyn DeGroot
Stepfamily Roles and Role Negotiation During End-of-Life Decision Making
Jessica Elton, Andrea Lambert South, and Jessica D. Freeman
The (Secret) Superhero Power of Working Moms: Resiliency
Lindsay Butcher
Striving, Not Settling, and Finding Your Way through Life’s Struggles: Building Communication Resilience at Home and at School as a First-Generation Student
Tiffany Wang
Work, Military Life, and Families
“You are not going to believe this!”: Parent and Adult Children Organizational Socialization and Work-Life Ideals
Kari Pink and Sarah Riforgiate
Married (More Than) 9 to 5: Varying Family Experiences with Preserving Face, Reducing Uncertainty, Navigating, and Forming a Discourse-Dependent Work-Spouse Relationship
M. Chad McBride and Allison R. Thorson
Military Sexual Trauma and the Family
Brenden Young
To ask or not to ask: Uncertainty and Information Management within a Military Family During and After a Deployment
Erin Sahlstein Parcell and Lindsay Timmerman
Can You Bring Your Full Self to Work? The Impact of Identity and Agency on Structuration
Candice Ruh
Taboo Topics
Are we going to have “that” talk? Parent-child sexual communication within discourse dependent families
Valerie Rubinsky and Syd Kenna-Moore
Menstrual Communication in the Family: Taboo, Secret or Do Families Just Avoid It?
Sarah S. LeBlanc and Lauren J. Johnsen
Protect this House from Trump: Making Politics Taboo
Jayne R. Goode
Intergenerational Family Communication about Sexual Activity and Health
Olivia Watson and Rikki A. Roscoe
Unique Issues within Family Communication
Using Problematic Integration Theory to Explore How Families with “Uniquely Constructed” Children Navigate Family Roles, Public Spaces, and Social Institutions
Stephanie Rollie Rodriquez
In-Law Relationships and Relational Turbulence Theory
Sylvia L. Mikucki-Enyart and Elizabeth E. Hansen
“I love ‘em, but we just see the world in completely different ways”: Communication (Non) Accommodation in Interfaith Family Relationships
Haley Decker and Jordan Soliz
Language Convergence and Meaning Divergence in an Intercultural Families
Brittany Morrisey and Anthony Machette
Difficulties in Communication that Strike Families
Say His Name and Pray It’s Not Your Loved One: How a Black Family Process Oppression through Black Feminist Thought and Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome
Savaughn E. Williams
Holidays are the worst: Negotiating Complicated Family Relationships and Estrangement
Kristina Scharp and Cody H. Nolan
“You’re his dad?”: Discourse Dependency in Foster Families
Dennis O’Grady
Using Facework to Examine Complicated Conversations in Mother-Daughter Relationships
Aimee Miller-Ott and Meredith Marko Harrigan
“I cannot believe you just said that to me. What the hell?”: Negotiated Morality Theory, Relational (In)Justice, and Post-Divorce Coparenting During a Global Pandemic
Falon Kartch and Erica Lassen
Contributor Biographies