Relating Difficulty

The Processes of Constructing and Managing Difficult Interaction
Herausgeber: Duck, Steven; Kirkpatrick, D. Charles; Foley, Megan K.

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Produktbeschreibung

Relating Difficulty offers insight into the nature of difficulty in relationships across a broad range of human experience. Whether dealing with in-laws or ex-spouses, long-distance relationships or power and status in the workplace, difficulty is an all too common feature of daily life. Relating Difficulty brings the academic understanding of relational processes to the everyday problems people face at home and at work. These essays represent a groundbreaking collection of the multidisciplinary conceptual and empirical work that currently exists on the topic. Along with issues such as chronic illness and money problems, contributors investigate contexts of relational difficulty ranging from everyday gossip, the workplace and shyness to more dangerous sexual "hookups" and partner abuse. Drawing on evidence presented in the volume, editors D. Charles Kirkpatrick, Steve Duck, and Megan K. Foley explain how relational problems do not emerge solely from individuals or even from the relationship itself. Instead, they arise from triangles of connection and negotiation between relational partners, contexts, and outsiders. The volume challenges the simple notion that relating difficulty is just about problems with "difficult people" and offers some genuinely novel insights into a familiar everyday experience. This exceptional volume is essential reading for practitioners, researchers and students of relationships across a wide range of disciplines as well as anyone wanting greater understanding of relational functioning in everyday life and at work.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 390g
• ISBN-13: 9780805854121
• ISBN-10: 0805854126
• Artikelnr.: 21411137

Autorenporträt

Kirkpatrick, D. Charles; Duck, Steven; Foley, Megan K.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface. S. Duck
D.C. Kirkpatrick
M.K. Foley
Difficulty In Relating: Some Conceptual Problems With "Problematic Relationships" and Difficulties With "Difficult People." S.D. Bradshaw
Shyness and Difficult Relationships: Formation Is Just the Beginning. M.K. Foley
Locating "Difficulty": A Multi-Site Model of Intimate Terrorism. M.J. Lovaglia
J.W. Lucas
Leadership as the Management of Power in Relationships at Work. G. Allan
C. Gerstner
Money and Relationship Difficulties. M.C.M. Serewicz
The Difficulties of In-law Relationships. E.M. Sahlstein
The Trouble With Distance. E.L. Paul
Beer Goggles
Catching Feelings
and the Walk of Shame: The Myths and Realities of the Hookup Experience. E.K. Foster
R.L. Rosnow
Gossip and Network Relationships. S.S. Rollie
Nonresidential Parent-Child Relationships: Overcoming the Challenges of Absence. R. Lyons
L. Langille
S. Duck
Difficult Relationships and Relationship Difficulties: Relationship Adaption and Chronic Health Problems. S. Duck
M.K. Foley
D.C. Kirkpatrick
Relating Difficulty in a Triangular World.