Books in the Key Themes in Family Communication series

The first volume in a new textbook series from Polity: key themes in family communication. The volumes are designed to introduce key topics in more depth than the standard overview textbook treatment.

* New introductory text on communication in marriages and other long-term romantic relationships. * Covers key topics such as communication across the lifespan, communication and intimacy and conflict. * Written as a textbook but also draws on the author s experience as a marriage counsellor.

* Synthesizes literature from a wide variety of disciplines to examine family interaction in the context of stressful situations. * Designed as a textbook within Polity s Key Themes in Family Communication series. * Looks at the topic of stress and coping across the individual, relational and family levels.

* 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.

Family Conflict takes a life course approach as it provides an accessible discussion of family conflict issues, processes, and outcomes. Chapters draw on recent theory and research regarding sub-systems and stages in family life to give readers resource-rich overviews of conflict in contemporary families.