Family Stories and Rituals

The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Family Psychology

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 625-636

  Fiese, Barbara H ^a   Winter, Marcia A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acts of co constructing family narrative reflecting practicing aspects of family; Families coming together as groups in variety of ways; Family routines and rituals and access to whole family process; Family stories; Family stories and health and wellbeing; Family stories and rituals; family stories windows onto inner workings of family; Narrative Coding Scheme; Supportive and disruptive elements of routines and rituals

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885702874     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444310238.ch44     Document Type: Chapter

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