Family Stories and the Life Course: Across Time and Generations

Editorial Reviews. Review. The broad life-span developmental focus in Family Stories and the Life Course serves to integrate the diversity of the work, and to.
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The book is divided into sections that focus on family stories at different points in the life cycle, from early childhood and the beginnings of narrative skill, through adolescence, young adulthood, midlife, and then mature adulthood and its intergenerational meaning. During each of these periods of the life cycle, research focusing on individual development within an Eriksonian framework of ego strengths and virtues is highlighted.

The dynamic role of family stories is also featured here, with work exploring the links between family process, intergenerational attachment, and storytelling.

Family stories and the life course across time and generations

Sociocultural theories that emphasize how such development is situated in the wider cultural context are also featured in several chapters. This broad lifespan developmental focus serves to integrate the exciting diversity of this work and foster further questions and research in the emerging field of family narrative. The book is intended primarily for researchers and advanced-level students in the fields of developmental and personality psychology, as well as those in family studies and in gerontology.

It may also be of interest to those in the helping professions who are concerned with family therapy and family issues, and may--due to its content and illustrative material--have appeal to a wider market of the lay public. The chapters are written in a readily accessible style and the analyses are presented in a fairly non-technical way. Because family stories are charted across the lifespan, it would be a suitable companion book to a more traditional lifespan textbook in certain courses.

Aging and Grandparenthood in Narrative.

Generativity and the narrative ecology of family life

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Return to Book Page. Family Stories and the Life Course: Across Time and Generations by Michael W. Across Time and Generations it was amazing 5. 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.

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