Change processes in relationships : a relational-historical research approach / Alan Fogel, Andrea Garvey, Hui-Chin Hsu, and Delisa West-Stroming.

Just as each person develops from infancy to adulthood, all interpersonal relationships have a life history that encompasses the changes in how people communicate with each other. This book is about how a relationship transforms itself from one pattern of communication to another. Compelling and inn...

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Other Authors: Fogel, Alan, Garvey, Andrea, Hsu, Hui-Chin, West-Stroming, Delisa
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Overview of the research problem and summary of findings
  • Relationships as developing systems: theoretical foundations
  • Mother-infant relationship development in the first six months: from face-to-face play to object play
  • Relational-historical research on developmental change
  • Relational-historical research: the multiple case study approach, frame analysis, qualitative and quantitative analysis
  • Research propositions about relationship change processes
  • Research methods for the current investigation: subjects, procedures, and data analysis
  • Results of the current investigation : quantitative analysis of developmental changes in relationship frames and in infant actions
  • Results of the current investigation: qualitative analysis of Richard and his mother
  • Results of the current investigation: qualitative analysis of Betsy and her mother
  • Results of the current investigation: qualitative analysis of Lewis and his mother
  • Results of the current investigation: qualitative analysis of Susan and her mother
  • Summary of findings on relational-historical change
  • Epilogue: Laws of change: implications for theory and practice.