Family Violence from a Communication Perspective

Dudley D. Cahn, Sally A. Lloyd, Dudley Dean Cahn, Sally A Lloyd

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 1996
• Print ISBN: 9780803959835, 9780803959828
• eBook ISBN: 9781452248196
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Interpersonal Relations in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Although an anecdotal association between communication and family violence was noted early in the family violence literature, a communication approach to family violence has been underrepresented in the literature. This book is a welcome contribution to the literature because it demonstrates that the connection between communication and family violence is much more complex than a skills deficit of one or more members of a violent relationship. --Gail Whitchurch, Department of Communication Studies, Indiana University Adding an innovative perspective to traditional psychological and sociological approaches, Family Violence from a Communication Perspective lays out a new theoretical framework for understanding and resolving abusive family interactions. This exceptional volume features contributions from a variety of disciplines that examine the interactional processes at the core of domestic abuse, aggression, and violence. The contributors explore the development of violence in the family, beginning with courtship violence, proceeding through marital violence, and perpetuated through parent-child violence. Providing keen insight, the chapters examine the commonalities and differences inherent in emotional, psychological, verbal, and sexual abuse and how they all stem from basic communication problems. An essential resource for students and scholars in communication, family studies, relationship studies, psychology, sociology, and women?s studies, Family Violence from a Communication Perspective also offers a refreshing viewpoint for professionals in the human services.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1 - Family Violence from a Communication Perspective
• Chapter 2 - The Catalyst Hypothesis: Conditions Under Which Coercive Communication Leads to Physical Aggression
• Chapter 3 - Family Interaction Process: An Essential Tool for Exploring Abusive Relations
• Chapter 4 - Home is Where the Hell is: An Introduction to Violence Against Children from a Communication Perspective
• Chapter 5 - Parent-to-Child Verbal Aggression
• Chapter 6 - Communication Patterns in Families of Adolescent Sex Offenders
• Chapter 7 - Communication and Violence in Courtship Relationships
• Chapter 8 - The Ties That Bind Women to Violent Premarital Relationships: Processes of Seduction and Entrapment
• Chapter 9 - Physical Aggression, Distress, and Everyday Marital Interaction
• Chapter 10 - The Role of Communication in Verbal Abuse Between Spouses
• Chapter 11 - Relational Control and Physical Aggression in Satisfying Marital Relationships
• References
• Author Index
• Subject Index
• About the Contributors