Learning about Relationships (Understanding Relationship Processes series) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803951582 ISBN 13: 9780803951587

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1993

Synopsis

with Kim Bartholomew, Valerie Binney, Louise Bowers, Phillip R. Costanzo, Helen Cowie, Tovah P. Klein, Gary W. Ladd, Karen D. Le Sieur, Judi Beinstein Miller, Rosemary S. L. Mills, Jacqueline Mize, Gregory S. Pettit, Susan M. Profilet, Martha Putallaz, Kenneth H. Rubin & Peter K. Smith How do early experiences influence a person′s approach to relationships later in life? What types of experiences have a lasting effect on the way in which a person conducts relationships? Focusing on the behavioral aspects of relationships, Learning About Relationships considers the lasting effects of early-life experiences on later-life relationships. Among the diverse topics explored in this illustrative volume are how parent-child relationships affect a child′s feelings of self-worth and the subsequent influences on later relationships, the development of attachment styles in infancy that carry over to adult relationships, how early mother-child experiences affect one′s later rearing of children, and how the ideas parents have about relationships affect their relationships with their children. This volume also offers an intriguing analysis of family effects on peer relationships. The final chapter deals with the bullying and victimization that often occurs in school playgrounds and asks the question: Why do some children become bullies and victims? An insightful analysis of the behavioral aspects of relationships, Learning About Relationships presents a compelling catalog of specific ways in which a child′s social-relational learning is molded through childhood. As such, it is required reading for professionals and students interested in personal relationships, social psychology, communication studies, family studies, sociology, and gender studies. "The most striking feature of this book relates to its clarity of theme and its integrative structure. The strong, attachment-related theoretical thread that runs through most of the contributions lends a conceptual coherence often lacking in edited volumes. . . . as this book makes clear, the area of children′s relational learning is undergoing some exciting developments. Learning About Relationships makes a valuable and stimulating contribution to the field, and whets the appetite for Volume 3 in this important series." --Journal of Marriage and the Family

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About the Author

Steve Duck taught in the United Kingdom before taking up the Daniel and Amy Starch Distinguished Research Chair in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Iowa. He has been a professor of communication studies, an adjunct professor of psychology, and a former Dean’s Administrative Fellow and is now Chair of the Rhetoric Department. He has taught interpersonal communication courses, mostly on relationships but also on nonverbal communication, communication in everyday life, construction of identity, communication theory, organizational leadership, and procedures and practices for leaders. More recently, he has taught composition, speaking, and rhetoric, especially for STEM students. By training an interdisciplinary thinker, Steve has focused on the development and decline of relationships, although he has also done research on the dynamics of television production techniques and persuasive messages in health contexts. Steve has written or edited 60 books on relationships and other matters and was the founder and, for the first 15 years, the editor of the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships. His book Meaningful Relationships: Talking, Sense, and Relating won the G. R. Miller Book Award from the Interpersonal Communication Division of the National Communication Association. Steve cofounded a series of international conferences on personal relationships. He won the University of Iowa’s first Outstanding Faculty Mentor Award in 2001 and the National Communication Association’s Robert J. Kibler Memorial Award in 2004 for “dedication to excellence, commitment to the profession, concern for others, vision of what could be, acceptance of diversity, and forthrightness.” He was the 2010 recipient of the UI College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Helen Kechriotis Nelson Teaching Award for a lifetime of excellence in teaching, and in the same year was elected one of the National Communication Association’s Distinguished Scholars. He received the NCA’s 2019 Mark L. Knapp Award in Interpersonal Communication for career contributions to the study of interpersonal communication. He hopes to make it to the Iowa State Fair one day.

 

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803951582
• ISBN 13: 9780803951587
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 274
• Editor: Duck Steve