(Re)Conceptualizing Family Communication: Applying Deetz’s Conceptual Frameworks within the Field of Family Communication

Droser, Veronica A.

doi:10.1080/15267431.2017.1282750

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“…Guided by the interpretive paradigm, which seeks to illuminate the subjective realities and experiences of a specific group or community (Droser, 2017), we applied a relational turning points approach as a sensitizing construct to gain insight into caregiving spouses' experiences of relational change. Sensitizing constructs provide a "point of departure" to guide the researcher in developing research questions and structuring the interview guide (Charmaz, 2014).…”

Section: Data Collection and Proceduresmentioning

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“That's when the relationship shifted”: Relational and communicative turning points in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias

Cooper

Pitts

Harwood

2021

Personal Relationships

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This study investigated the relational turning points experienced by caregiving spouses across the trajectory of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias. Data were collected using a modified version of the retrospective interviewing technique which facilitated close analysis of relational turning points and the role of communication in shaping and managing these turning points. Caregiving spouses described nine relational turning points across the disease trajectory. The turning points coalesced under four broad changes in the marital relationship: my spouse has dementia, from spouse to caregiver, my spouse is gone, and transcending dementia through love. Participants used five communication strategies to manage their relationships: having open and intimate conversations, avoiding confrontation, avoiding bringing attention to symptoms, engaging in daily conversations and activities, and communicating love and affection. Findings reveal the specific turning points that mark relational change across the disease trajectory and caregiving Statement of Relevance: This study extends relational turning points literature by providing insight into relational change in an end-of-life context. The turning points identified illustrate both relational loss in dementia as well as caregiving spouses' ability to manage relational change across the prolonged disease trajectory. These findings center communication as a resource for managing relational change and provide caregivers a guide to navigating such change.

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Section: Data Collection and Proceduresmentioning

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“That's when the relationship shifted”: Relational and communicative turning points in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias

Cooper

Pitts

Harwood

2021

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“…In addition to the absence of these voices, in understanding the complex nature of grief, we face methodological challenges. For many, lived moments of struggle such as baby loss are difficult to process and make sense of (Harter, 2009;Koenig Kellas, 2008), and the methodological approaches typically used within and outside the field of family communication intensify this struggle by perpetuating a reliance on the production of linear and neatly organized data (Droser, 2017). To address this issue, in the present study, we call on narrative theorizing and visual narrative inquiry.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Narrative theorizing provides the framework for how children make sense of, grapple with, story, and communicate about death. Coupled with narrative, visual methods serve as a way of expanding perspectives of knowledge production within family communication studies (Droser, 2017). Thus, the research question that guides the present study is: How do children's drawings visually narrate baby loss remembrance?…”

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confidence: 99%

A visual narrative analysis of children’s baby loss remembrance drawings

Willer

Droser

Hoyt

et al. 2018

Journal of Family Communication

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Children experiencing the death of baby brother or sister have reported individual, familial, and communicative challenges. Siblings also have indicated that the loss of a baby in their family enriched their lives despite their pain. The present study extends this work by focusing not only on siblings but also other children enmeshed in the family system. Additionally, we heed the call for the use of arts-based methods in family communication by performing a visual narrative analysis of children's baby loss remembrance drawings. This analysis of 131 drawings completed by children ages zero to 18 yielded three main themes, including narration of identity, narration of life and death, and narration of growing sense-making. Two continua capture these themes, including the subject of narrativization and the mode of narrativization. In presenting these findings, we provide a unique (means of) understanding children's experience of baby loss in the family. The field of family communication studies was created with the goal of understanding the unique experiences of the family unit. However, though conceptions of family and the experiences of family members have become increasingly complicated, the methodological approaches family communication scholars use have remained relatively fixed (Droser, 2017; Suter, 2016). In line with the recently proposed critical family communication approach (see Suter, 2016), the current study begins to push the boundaries of what is considered within the purview of family communication studies by embracing a complicated and understudied topic-bereaved children's experience of the death of a baby in the family-and engaging a less traditional type of research method-visual narrative analysis. This work explicitly answers Faulkner's (2016) call for more arts-based research within the field. Through enacting a visual

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“…Family communication scholarship, in general, has made great strides in the last decade in broadening the landscape of research. In addition to an increase in methodological pluralism as researchers see the value in various paradigmatic perspectives on understanding family communication (Droser, 2017;Suter, 2016), understudied family relationships and historically underrepresented groups are more pronounced in our research. For instance, Floyd and Mormon's (2014) edited volume, Widening the Family Circle: New Research on Family Communication sheds light on understudied family relationships such as stepfamilies, aunts and uncles, in-laws, and grandparents.…”

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Toward a More Expansive Understanding of Family Communication: Considerations for Inclusion of Ethnic-Racial and Global Diversity

Soliz

Phillips

2017

Journal of Family Communication

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(Re)Conceptualizing Family Communication: Applying Deetz’s Conceptual Frameworks within the Field of Family Communication

Cited by 7 publications

References 36 publications

“That's when the relationship shifted”: Relational and communicative turning points in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias

“That's when the relationship shifted”: Relational and communicative turning points in Alzheimer's disease and related dementias

A visual narrative analysis of children’s baby loss remembrance drawings

Toward a More Expansive Understanding of Family Communication: Considerations for Inclusion of Ethnic-Racial and Global Diversity

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