Communication for Families in Crisis Theories, Research, Strategies

«With this volume, the editors have significantly improved what we know about families' actual experiences with crises and the role communication plays in dealing with them. The research is original, engaging, useful, and highly likely to be heuristic.» (J. D. Ragsdale, Editor of 'Southern Journal of Communication')
«Fran C. Dickson and Lynne M. Webb have gathered together some of the top scholars in the communication discipline to examine how families experience, confront, and manage crisis in their everyday lives. The chapters are grounded in theory and research while maintaining a 'real world' focus on key areas such as family relationship crises, family health crises, and family economic crises. As such, this book provides both a much-needed scholarly and applied contribution to a critically important area of family communication studies.» (Glen Stamp, Professor and Chair, Department of Communication Studies, Ball State University)
«The scholars mine the depth of the communication discipline's offerings to understand messages and discourses family members experience and employ when faced with crises.» (Dawn O. Braithwaite, Willa Cather Professor of Communication, University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

Fran C. Dickson received her PhD from Bowling Green State University. She is Professor and Department Chair of Communication Studies at Chapman University. Her research focuses primarily on later-life adults’ communication in personal and family relationships.
Lynne M. Webb received her PhD from the University of Oregon. She is Professor of Communication at the University of Arkansas. Her research focuses primarily on young adults’ interpersonal communication in romantic and family contexts.