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The Dark Side of Family Communication

ISBN: 9780745647975 | 0745647979
Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Polity
Pub. Date: 7/16/2012

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
This is the first book to explore the communicative aspects of the darker side of family life. The book offers an intergrative understanding of the dark side of family communication and a theoretical mechanism for understanding related scholarship.

This text provides for the first time in book form an exploration of the communicative aspects of the darker side of family life, ranging from, for example, severe acts of violence to more subtle forms of conflict. In addition to offering a working definition of the conc... MORE
List of tables and figures
Prologue
Conceptualizing the "Dark Side" of Family Communication
Individual Influence on the Darkness of Family Communication
The Dark Side of Dyadic Family Life
Familial Interaction Structure and the Dark Side
Dark Family Communication in a Context of Darkness’s Sociocultural Influences on Family Life
Concluding Thoug... MORE
Bibliography
Index
Table of Contents provided by Publisher. All Rights Reserved.
Loreen N. Olson is an Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro.
Elizabeth A. Baiocchi-Wagner is Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri-Columbia
Jessica M. W. Kratzer is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Speech and Theatre at Middle Tennessee State University
Sarah E. Symonds is a doctoral candidate at the University of Missouri-Columbia


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