Disclosure Processes in Children and Adolescents

by Ken J. Rotenberg

Overview

To be known and to know others are essential aspects of social interaction. Disclosing personal information and perceiving it in others are all aspects of an individual's experience. Many problems at the forefront of our times—such as divorce, AIDS, rape, and child abuse—challenge our understanding of what should and should not be told. This timely volume presents the most recent developments in the analysis of disclosure processes. It brings together issues as diverse as loneliness, moral development, family therapy, and child abuse into a substantive whole that will prove an invaluable contribution to the field.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521028608
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	11/02/2006
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Social and Emotional Development
Edition description:	1ST
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.51(d)

Table of Contents

List of contributors; 1. Disclosure processes: an introduction Ken J. Rotenburg; 2. Patterns and functions of self-disclosure during childhood and adolescence Duane Buhrmester and Karen Prager; 3. Intimacy and self-disclosure in friendships Thomas J. Berndt and Nancy A. Hanna; 4. Self-disclosure and the sibling relationship: what did Romulus tell Remus? Nina Howe, Jasmin Aquan-Assee and William M. Bukowski; 5. Lonely preadolescents' disclosure to familiar peers and related social perceptions Ken J. Rotenburg and Mona Holowatuik; 6. Children's disclosure of vicariously induced emotions Nancy Eisenberg and Richard A. Fabes; 7. Moral development and children's differential disclosure to adults versus peers Ken J. Rotenberg; 8. Parental influences on children's willingness to disclose Beverly I. Fagot, Karen Luks and Jovonna Poe; 9. Disclosure processes: issues for child sexual abuse victims Kay Bussey and Elizabeth J. Grimbeek; 10. Self-disclosure in adolescents: a family systems perspective H. Russell Searight, Susan L. Thomas, Christopher M. Manley and Timothy U. Ketterson; Author index; Subject index.

Editorial Reviews

"...apt to be as successful as its predecessors [in the Cambridge Studies in Social and Emotional Development series] in heralding a new era in the developmental study of interpersonal relationships. This volume is accessible and engaging to those new to the study of disclosure processes and social relationships, and at the same time providing a provocative tour de force for scholars engaged in research on these topics. The work goes beyond a comprehensive review of classic and current research and theory, advancing an inclusive perspective on processes and variations in self-disclosure during childhood and adolescence. A luminary cast of contributors....identifies nascent issues and ascending investigations likely to dominate the discussion of self-disclosure well into the next century." Brett Laursen and Margaret Ferreira, Journal of Adolescence

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