LEA's Series on Personal Relationships

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1. Communication Among Grandmothers, Mothers, and Adult Daughters

   A Qualitative Study of Maternal Relationships

   By Michelle A. Miller-Day

   Series: LEA's Series on Personal Relationships

   This volume examines communication processes within the grandmother-mother-daughter relationship, emphasizing an intergenerational perspective. Using observations of and extensive interviews with six sets of middle-income, Caucasian female family members, this book offers a heuristic account of...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
2. Communicating at the End of Life

   Finding Magic in the Mundane

   By Elissa Foster

   Series: LEA's Series on Personal Relationships

   This enlightening volume provides first-hand perspectives and ethnographic research on communication at the end of life, a topic that has gone largely understudied in communication literature. Author Elissa Foster’s own experiences as a volunteer hospice caregiver form the basis of the book....

   Published October 18th 2006 by Routledge
3. Personal Relationships and Personal Networks

   By Malcolm R. Parks

   Series: LEA's Series on Personal Relationships

   The effort to understand personal relationships has traditionally focused on the individual characteristics of participants. Personal Relationships and Personal Networks takes this analysis a step further, focusing on research linking participants' feelings and actions within a given personal...

   Published August 15th 2006 by Routledge
4. Relating Difficulty

   The Processes of Constructing and Managing Difficult Interaction

   Edited by D. Charles Kirkpatrick, Steven Duck, Megan K. Foley

   Series: LEA's Series on Personal Relationships

   Relating Difficulty offers insight into the nature of difficulty in relationships across a broad range of human experience. Whether dealing with in-laws or ex-spouses, long-distance relationships or power and status in the workplace, difficulty is an all too common feature of daily life. Relating...

   Published February 20th 2006 by Routledge
5. Nonverbal Communication in Close Relationships

   By Laura K. Guerrero, Kory Floyd

   Series: LEA's Series on Personal Relationships

   Nonverbal Communication in Close Relationships provides a synthesis of research on nonverbal communication as it applies to interpersonal interaction, focusing on the close relationships of friends, family, and romantic partners. Authors Laura K. Guerrero and Kory Floyd support the premise that...

   Published November 17th 2005 by Routledge
6. Safer Sex in Personal Relationships

   The Role of Sexual Scripts in HIV Infection and Prevention

   By Tara M. Emmers-Sommer, Mike Allen

   Series: LEA's Series on Personal Relationships

   This book focuses on safer sex discussion and practice in close, personal relationships, emphasizing research on individuals in personal relationship types that are experiencing a rise in HIV infection and AIDS. Moving beyond studies of gay adult males and IV drug-users, this work paints a clear...

   Published October 12th 2004 by Routledge
7. The State of Affairs

   Explorations in infidelity and Commitment

   Edited by Jean Duncombe, Kaeren Harrison, Graham Allan, Dennis Marsden

   Series: LEA's Series on Personal Relationships

   This volume brings together contributions on the study of sexual affairs in committed personal relationships. The editors enlisted colleagues with varied theoretical and methodological perspectives from Britain, the United States, and other countries. Together, their contributions provide a broad,...

   Published April 27th 2004 by Psychology Press
8. A Lifetime of Communication

   Transformations Through Relational Dialogues

   By Julie Yingling

   Series: LEA's Series on Personal Relationships

   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...

   Published April 20th 2004 by Psychology Press
9. Relational Communication

   An Interactional Perspective To the Study of Process and Form

   Edited by L. Edna Rogers, Valent¡n Escudero

   Series: LEA's Series on Personal Relationships

   Relational Communication: An Interactional Perspective to the Study of Process and Form brings together in one volume a full treatment of the relational communication perspective on the study of relationships. This perspective takes to heart the formative nature of communication by focusing on the...

   Published October 31st 2003 by Routledge
10. Maintaining Relationships Through Communication

    Relational, Contextual, and Cultural Variations

    Edited by Daniel J. Canary, Marianne Dainton

    Series: LEA's Series on Personal Relationships

    Relational maintenance provides a rallying point for those seeking to discover the behaviors that individuals utilize to sustain their personal relationships. Theoretical models, research programs, and specific studies have examined how people in a variety of close relationships choose to define...

    Published October 31st 2002 by Routledge