Exploring Family Theories

Associate Professor of Human Development Suzanne R Smith; Chair of Human Development and Family Science Raeann R Hamon
Oxford University Press, USA
9780190297268
0-19-029726-3

Offering a diverse variety of perspectives, Exploring Family Theories, Fourth Edition, is a combined text/reader that integrates theory with research and applications. In each chapter, Suzanne R. Smith.

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and Raeann R. Hamon present the history, scholarship, and critiques of one principal family theory in a concise manner. Numerous examples and illustrations augment and clarify content, while application questions help students relate these theories to the real world. After each chapter, a follow-up journal article exemplifies how that particular theory is used to guide actual research.