This third edition of Family Communication carefully examines state-of-the art research and
theories of family communication and family relationships. In addition to presenting …

Surviving and Thriving in Stepfamily Relationships draws on current research, a wide variety
of clinical modalities, and thirty years of clinical work with stepfamily members to describe …

Being hurt is an inevitable part of close relationships. What varies from relationship to
relationship is not whether partners hurt each other, but how their relationship is affected by …

Family Communication organizes the study of family communication around the concepts of
nurturing and control which allows the consideration of communication in all family …

In this study, demand/withdraw patterns and feeling caught were tested as mediators of
family communication patterns and young adults' mental well-being. Participants included …

This grounded theory study was designed to generate theory to understand how student
academic support is communicated between students during the freshmen transition. No …

Research suggests that student academic support plays a vital role at the college level as
students often view communication with peers as their primary source of academic support …

The nonresidential parent plays a role in the lives of stepchildren and in stepfamily
households. The focus of the present study was on the interaction between the …

Using interdependence theory, this study tested a series of actor–partner interdependence
models of coparental communication and relational satisfaction among stepparents and …

This mixed-methods study considers why parents do not establish or maintain strategies to
manage adolescents' media use. In focus groups and interviews, US parents of adolescents …