1st Edition
Parents and Children Communicating with Society Managing Relationships Outside of the Home
The volume opens a new frontier in parent-child communication research as it brings together veteran researchers and newcomers to explore the communication of parents and children as they create relationships outside the family. The chapters herein examine communication processes and problems of parents and children as they interact with childcare, healthcare, education, and youth sports; investigate the unique challenges facing various types of families as they communicate outside the family (e.g., stepfamilies and gay/lesbian/bisexual families); and consider the role of media in family relationships outside of home.
The primary audiences for the volume includes scholars, researchers and graduate students studying communication in families, children’s communication, communication in personal relationships, organizational communication, group communication, and health communication. It will also be of interest to psychologists who study families, children, and organizations; sociologists who study families, children, and organizations; education researchers; teachers; coaches; family physicians; and family therapists. graduate students It has the potential for use in courses in family communication, family studies, family sociology, and child development.
Foreword: Anita Vangelisti
- A New Frontier for Family Communication Studies: Parent-Child-Societal
- Connecting Two Worlds of Childhood: How Do Parents, Childcare
- Kids, Parents, and Organization: Cooperation and Conflict in a Child
- The Interface of HOME-work and Low Wage Maternal Employment.
- School, Home, and Homework.
- Commentary: Childcare and Education Relationships
- When Your Child is in Crisis: Navigating Medical Needs with Issues of
- The Role of Communication in Child-Parent-Provider Interaction in a
- Early Intervention or Early Imposition: A Bona Fide Group Perspective
- Parent-Talk and Sport Participation: Interaction Between Parents, Children,
- Coaching Your Own Child: An Exploration of Dominance and Affiliation
- Commentary: Communication and Family Health & Wellness
- Powerful Media Tools: Arming parents with strategies to affect children’s
- Finding Adolescents through Cyberspace: Youth Workers, Teenagers, and
Communication
Thomas J. Socha and Glen H. Stamp
Section 1: Childcare & Education
Providers, and Children Communicate?
Daniel J. Weigel and Sally S. Martin
Development Center Culture.
John C. Meyer
Michelle Miller-Day and Tara McManus
Leah Wingard
Julie Yingling
Section 2: Health & Wellness
Privacy Management
Ashley Duggan and Sandra Petronio
Children’s Mental Health System of Care.
Christine S. Davis, Norin Dollard, and Keren S. Vergon
Analysis of the Parent-Child-Early Intervention Relationship.
Carol B. Mills and Kasey L Walker
and Coaches Regarding Level of Play in Sports.
Paul Turman, Angela Zimmerman, and Brett Dobesh
in Parent-Child Communication in the Public Sphere.
Robert S. Littlefield and Cindy Larson-Casselton
Relationships
Gary Kreps
Section 3: Parent-Child-Society Relationships and Media
interactions with commercial interests.
Erica Weintraub Austin, Stacey J. T. Hust, and Michelle E. Kistler
Instant Messaging.
Peggy Kendall
15. Response to Family Crisis: Mood Disorders, Supportive Listening, and the
Telephone Helpline Volunteer.
Barbara A. Penington and Raymond D. Baus
16. Commentary: Parent-Child-Societal Relationships and Media
Jennings Bryant
Section 4: Evolving Caregiving Roles and Relationships
17. When the World Comes Home: Examining Internal and External Influences
on Communication Exchanges between Parents and Their Boomerang
Children
Sally Vogl-Bauer
18. Stepfamilies Interfacing Outside the Home: Barriers to Stepparent/stepchild
Communication with Educational, Medical, and Legal personnel.
Amy J. Johnson, Elizabeth A. Craig, Michel M. Haigh, Eileen S.
Gilchrist, Lindsey T. Lane, and Nakia S. Welch
19. Interactions Between Gay and Lesbian Foster Parents, the Children Placed
in their Home, and the Surrounding Community.
Dennis Grady Patrick and John Palladino
20. Commentary: Communication and Evolving Caregiving Roles &
Relationships
Dawn O. Braithwaite and Jordan Soliz
Epilogue
Kathleen M. Galvin
Biography
Thomas J. Socha is ODU University Professor and Associate Professor of Communication at Old Dominion University. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Family Communication, and received the NCA’s Bernard J. Brommel Award for Outstanding Scholarship and Distinguished Service in Family Communication. His publications include books, chapters and articles about various facets of family communication.
Glen H. Stamp is a Professor, Department Chair, and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Communication Studies at Ball State University. He has previously published one book (with Thomas J. Socha) on parent-child communication as well as authoring numerous articles and chapters in interpersonal communication and family communication.