Family Storytelling

Jody Koenig Kellas is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA. Her research focuses on the ways in which people communicate to make sense of their relationships and how communication, such as storytelling and perspective-taking, affect and reflect individual and relational well-being.

• 1. Framing Family: An Introduction Jody Koenig Kellas Part I: Developing Identity in the Family 2. Exploring the Narrative Process: An Analysis of the Adoption Stories Mothers Tell Their Internationally Adopted Children Meredith Marko Harrigan 3. Using Relational Stories to Predict the Trajectory Toward Marital Dissolution: The Oral History Interview and Spousal Feelings of Flooding, Loneliness, and Depression Eve-Anne M. Doohan, Sybil Carrère and Matt L. Riggs Part II: Teaching Lessons in the Family 4. "Love Stories aren’t Always like the Movies": The Relational Implications of Inheriting Parents’ Courtship Stories Haley Kranstuber 5. The Storied Nature of Health Legacies in the Familial Experience of Type 2 Diabetes Margaret M. Manoogian, Lynn M. Harter and Sharon A. Denham Part III: Making Sense of Difficulty in the Family 6. Exploring Links Between Well-Being and Interactional Sense-Making in Married Couples’ Jointly Told Stories of Stress Jody Koenig Kellas, April R. Trees, Paul Schrodt, Cassandra LeClair-Underberg and Erin Willer 7. Inheriting the Narratives of Dementia: A Collaborative Tale of a Daughter and Mother Melissa Wood Alemán and Katherine W. Helfrich