Family Stories and the Life Course : Across Time and Generations.

Pratt (Wilfred Laurier University) and Fiese (Syracuse University) survey recent psychological research and theory on family stories, which are first-person accounts of personal experiences that have meaning to individuals and the family as a whole. Contributors focus on the act of telling family st...

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Main Author: Pratt, Michael W.
Other Authors: Fiese, Barbara H.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 Families, Stories, and the Life Course: An Ecological Context; Part I: Child Narratives:; 2 Echoing Our Parents: Parental Influences on Children's Narration; 3 Family Narratives and the Development of Children's Emotional Well-Being; 4 Coherence and Representations in Preschoolers' Narratives: Associations With Attachment in Infancy; 5 Children's Empathic Representations in Relation to Early Caregiving Patterns Among Low-Income African American Mothers; Part II: Adolescent Narratives.