1st Edition

A Lifetime of Communication Transformations Through Relational Dialogues

By Julie Yingling Copyright 2004
436 Pages
by Psychology Press

446 Pages
by Psychology Press

436 Pages
by Psychology Press

A Lifetime of Communication explores the developmental processes that make for uniquely human change and growth. In this distinctive work, author Julie Yingling utilizes a single case example of a child, her parents, and other influential figures to demonstrate developmental interaction and transformational life events. Using relational and dialogic perspectives, Yingling follows the child from... Read more
Contents: Series Foreword. Preface. Developmental Processes: A Brief Theoretical History. Infant Development: Biological Endowments and Beyond. Cocreating Self and Other: Influence and Reciprocity in the First 2 Years. Creating a Mind: Dialogue in Symbols. Early Relationships: Knowing the Other. Childhood: Negotiating Competence Between Self and Other. Adolescence: Flowers of Maturation, Seeds of Dialectics. The College Years: Rhetorical Challenges at the Boundaries. Young Adulthood: Romancing Other and Self. Middle Adulthood: Nurturing and Relinquishing Youth. Older Adulthood: Power in Drawing Together and Falling Apart. Human Communication Futures: Beyond Dualities to Dialogic Consciousness.

Biography

Julie Yingling