This chapter provides a map of the landscape of family communication research and theory
by presenting an overview of family communication research from 2004–2015 and offering …

We envision this volume as a resource to students and researchers who are interested in
family communication. Rather than providing the reader with a summary of research findings …

Family communication has become an increasingly identifiable field of study within the
communication discipline. Still, the roots of family communication are highly interdisciplinary …

Engaging Theories in Family Communication, Second Edition delves deeply into the key
theories in family communication, focusing on theories originating both within the …

A review of theoretical perspectives across the broad spectrum of family communication is
quite useful. Continuing investigations may test theory, be guided by theory, or may …

Method The journals analyzed in this review were the same eight communication journals
used in the first handbook chapter (CM, CQ, CS, HCR, JACR, JC, SCJ, and WJC). These …

From the fi rst publications about family communication, pioneering scholars recognized the
potential of communication as a force for good and for ill, and, therefore, fi rmly rooted family …

Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Lynn H. Turner,
Communication Studies, Marquette University, PO Box 1881, Milwaukee, WI 53201–1881. E …

A thorough exploration of the critical topics and issues facing family communication
researchers today The Sage Handbook of Family Communication provides a …

postpositivist and interpretive lenses. At its most basic level, the JFC special issue “Critical
Approaches to Family Communication Research: Representation, Critique, and Praxis” aims …