Books written by Thomas J. Socha

Communicating Hope and Resilience Across the Lifespan

This book addresses the various ways in which communication plays an important role in fostering hope and resilience.
Parents, Children, and Communication: Frontiers of Theory and Research

She has published nine books and over 60 journal articles and book chapters in the field of lifespan sociocognitive development. Her publications include titles such as: Looking Forward Through the LifeSpan: Developmental Psychology, ...
Parents and Children Communicating with Society: Managing Relationships Outside of the Home

The boomerang age: Transitions to adulthood in families. New Brunswick, NJ: AldineTransaction. Mitchell, B. A., & Gee, E. M. (1996). “Boomerang kids” and midlife parental marita lsatisfaction. Family Relations, 45, 442–448.
Parents and Children Communicating with Society: Managing Relationships Outside of Home

The volume opens a new frontier in parent-child communication research as it brings together veteran researchers and newcomers to explore the communication of parents and children as they create relationships outside the family.
Communicating Hope and Resilience Across the Lifespan

This book addresses the various ways in which communication plays an important role in fostering hope and resilience.
Communication, Race, and Family: Exploring Communication in Black, White, and Biracial Families

This groundbreaking volume explores how family communication influences the perennial and controversial topic of race.
Communication, Race, and Family: Exploring Communication in Black, White, and Biracial Families

“He who steals my purse steals trash, but he who steals my good name steals all that I have” introduces another significant ... for boys and girls, that 86% of the European-American children chose European-American personal names, ...
Family Communication and Cultural Transformation: (Re)Awakening Legacies of Equality, Social Justice, Freedom, and Hope

Building on their past work in race and family communication, Rhunette C. Diggs and Thomas J. Socha gather in this volume contemporary theory and research concerning ways that families use communication to transform inherited cultural ...
Parents and Children Communicating with Society: Managing Relationships Outside of the Home

The volume opens a new frontier in parent-child communication research as it brings together veteran researchers and newcomers to explore the communication of parents and children as they create relationships outside the family.
Communication Begins with Children: A Lifespan Communication Sourcebook

Communication Begins with Children argues that the field of communication must stop neglecting and segregating children and instead adopt an age-inclusive lifespan approach that fully includes and fully considers children in all ...
The Positive Side of Interpersonal Communication

Intended to serve as a starting point for future research as well as inspiring new areas of interpersonal communication scholarship. From publisher description.
Advancing Family Communication Theory and Research: A Special Issue of Journal of Family Communication

Heinrich Schenker: A Research and Information Guide is an annotated bibliography concerning both the nature of primary sources related to the composer and the scope and significance of the secondary sources which deal with him, his ...