Research Catalog

Title

Confronting relationship challenges / edited by Steve Duck, Julia T. Wood.

Publication

• Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, [1995]
• ©1995

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Details

Additional Authors

• Duck, Steve
• Wood, Julia T.

Description

xvi, 278 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

Confronting Relationship Challenges moves forward the "Understanding Relationship Processes" series by addressing the difficult side of relationships. This volume, edited by Steve Duck and Julia T. Wood, takes an honest look at what can go wrong with relationships and highlights some of the challenges partners might face while struggling to comprehend their connectedness to each other. Discussion in this volume moves away from any implication that relationships are only good and delightful, because even in the very closest of relationships, pain and suffering are inevitable. The contributing scholars examine the management and tolerance skills required of participants in order to construct meaningful interpretations of themselves, each other, and the relationship while all of the components evolve and interact in continually changing contexts. Issues examined include conflict, enemies, reconfiguring "family" after a divorce, codependency, interpersonal violence, HIV/AIDS, chronic illness, and managing grief over a partner's death. Students and scholars in interpersonal communication, social psychology, clinical/counseling psychology, family studies, social work, and sociology will find this volume to be a valuable resource.

Series Statement

Understanding relationship processes series ; v. 5

Uniform Title

Understanding relationship processes series ; v. 5.

Subject

• Interpersonal relations
• Interpersonal conflict
• Interpersonal Relations
• Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Interpersoonlijke relaties
• Sociale conflicten

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 234-262) and indexes.

Contents

For better, for worse, for richer, for poorer: The rough and the smooth of relationships / S. Duck, J.T. Wood -- Shame and anger in personal relationships / S.M. Retzinger -- Having and managing enemies: A very challenging relationship / J.P. Wiseman, S. Duck -- Family reconfiguring following divorce / M. Coleman, L.H. Ganong -- Codependency: Personality syndrome of relational process? / P.H. Wright, K.D. Wright -- Understanding how the dynamics of ideology influence violence between intimates / J.T. West -- HIV/AIDS: A crucible for understanding the dark side of sexual interactions / S.P. Bowen, P. Michael-Johnson -- Painting a new face on relationships: Relationship remodeling in response to chronic illness / R.F. Lyons, D. Meade -- Held captive by their memories: Managing grief in relationships / J.H. Harvey, M.K. Barnes, H.R. Carlson, J. Haig., Steve.

ISBN

• 0803956487
• 9780803956483
• 0803956495
• 9780803956490

LCCN

94023540

OCLC

• ocm31411722
• 31411722
• SCSB-8794561

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library