Introduction
Part1: Family Communication Theories and Methods
1. Ten Years of Family Communication Research: Theories, Research Perspectives, and Trends
2. Perspectives on Studying Family Communication: Methodologies, Methods, and Trends
Part2: Communication Across the Family Life Course
3. Mate Selection and Courtship
4. Marital Communication: A Functionalist Perspective
5. Becoming Parents: Risk, Protective Factors, and Key Methodological Considerations for Future Research
6. Between Younger and Older Generations: Family Communication at Midlife
7. Family Communication in Later-Life
Part3: Communication In Various Family Forms
8. Communication in Intact Families
9. Divorced and Single Parent Families
10. Stepfamilies as Developed and Enacted in Communication
11. Communication in Adoptive Families
12. Sexual and Gender Diversity in Family Relationships
13. Support Communication in Culturally Diverse Families: The Role of Stigma Revisited
Part4: The Relational Communication Of Family Members
14. Mothers, Fathers, and Coparenting Others
15. Infant Communication
16. Family Interaction during Middle Childhood
17. Family Relationships during Adolescence
18. Communication during Emerging Adulthood
19. Social Networks and Extended Families
Part5: Family Communication Processes
20. Difficult Family Subjects: Disclosing, Avoiding, Assuming, and Hinting
21. Conflict and Relational Quality in Families
22. Persuasion and Families
23. Social Support in Families
24. Family Stories and Storytelling: Windows into the Family Soul
Part6: Communication And Contemporary Family Issues
25. Work and Family Interaction
26. The Media as an Ecosystem for Family Communication
27. Families Communicating through Technology
28. Military Families and Deployment Separations
29. The Reciprocal Influence of Substance Use Disorders and Family Members’ Communication
30. Charting Dangerous Territory: The Family as a Context of Violence and Aggression
31. Physiology and Physical Health
32. Mental Health
Part7: Epilogue And Commentary
33. Family Communication: Past and Future