Families, stories, and the life course : an ecological context / Michael W. Pratt and Barbara H. Fiese -- pt. I: Child narratives: competence and attachment development. Echoing our parents : parental influences on children's narration / Carole Peterson and Allysa McCabe -- Family narratives and the development of children's emotional well-being / Robyn Fivush, Jennifer Bohanek, Rachel Robertson, and Marshall Duke -- Coherence and representations in preschoolers' narratives : associations with attachment in infancy / Efrat Sher-Censor and David Oppenheim -- Children's empathic representations in relation to early caregiving patterns among low-income African American mothers / JoAnn Robinson and Michael Eltz -- pt. II: Adolescent narratives: identity development and its contexts. Adoption narratives : the construction of adoptive identity during adolescence / Nora Dunbar and Harold D. Grotevant -- Adolescents' representations of parents' voices in family stories : value lessons, personal adjustment, and identity development / Mary Louise Arnold, Michael W. Pratt, and Cheryl Hicks -- When parents' stories go to pot : telling personal transgressions to teenage kids / Avril Thorne, Kate C. McLean and Anna Dasbach -- pt. III: Young adulthood: intimacy and relationship narratives. Marital attachment and family functioning : use of narrative methodology / Susan Dickstein -- pt. IV: Midlife: parenting and narrative socialization processes in the family. Generativity and the narrative ecology of family life / Dan P. McAdams -- Pin-curling grandpa's hair in the comfy chair : parents' stories of growing up and potential links to socialization in the preschool years / Barbara H. Fiese and Nicole L. Bickham -- The cultural context of parent-child reminiscing : a functional analysis / Qi Wang -- Listening is active : lessons from the narrative practices of Taiwanese families / Heidi Fung, Peggy J. Miller, and Lu-Chun Lin -- pt. V: Aging and grandparenthood in narrative. Telling stories and getting acquainted : how age matters / Odette Gould -- "As long as they go back down the driveway at the end of the day" : stories of the satisfactions and challenges of grandparenthood / Joan E. Norris, Stephanie Kuiack, and Michael W. Pratt -- Writing a connection : intergenerational communication through stories / Ellen Bouchard Ryan, Kristine A. Pearce, Ann P. Anas, and Joan E. Norris -- pt. VI: Conclusions and future directions. Metaphors and meanings of family stories : integrating life course and systems perspectives on narrative / Barbara H. Fiese and Michael W. Pratt.
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Pratt (Wilfred Laurier University) and Fiese (Syracuse University) survey recent psychological research and theory on family stories, which are first-person accounts of personal experiences that have meaning to individuals and the family as a whole. Contributors focus on the act of telling family st.