<p>While family life has conspicuously changed in the past fifty years, it would be a mistake to conclude that family routines and rituals have lost their meaning. In this book Barbara H. Fiese, a clinical and developmental psychologist, examines how the practices of diverse family routines and the meanings created through rituals have evolved to meet the demands of today’s busy families. She discusses and integrates various research literatures and draws on her own studies to show how family routines and rituals influence physical and mental health, translate cultural values, and may even be used therapeutically.<br>Looking at a range of family activities from bedtime stories to special holiday meals, Fiese relates such occasions to significant issues including parenting competence, child adjustment, and relational well-being. She concludes by underscoring the importance of flexible approaches to family time to promote healthier families and communities.</p>

Family Routines and Rituals (Current Perspectives in Psychology)

Fiese, Barbara H.

Parenting & Relationships

Yale University Press

Personal narratives are receiving considerable interest as reflections of important psychological processes. Less attention, however, has been paid to how narratives are constructed among family members and serve as markers of family relationship functioning that directly affect child development. This monograph describes the ways that narratives about personal experience are a central aspect of a family's attempt to make sense of their world and to share representations of relationships with their children. The narratives used in this project came from family interviews conducted with four different samples using four different interview protocols.

The Stories That Families Tell: Narrative Coherence, Narrative Interaction, and Relationship Beliefs (Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Grotevant, Harold D.

Sameroff, Arnold J.

Wamboldt, Frederick S.

Dickstein, Susan

Fravel, Deborah Lewis

Psychology & Counseling

Blackwell Pub.

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