Exploring Family Theories

Offering a diverse variety of perspectives Exploring Family Theories Fourth Edition is a combined text/reader that integrates theory with research and applications. In each chapter Suzanne R. Smith and Raeann R. Hamon present the history scholarship and critiques of one principal family theory in a concise manner. Numerous examples and illustrations augment and clarify content while application questions help students relate these theories to the real world. After each chapter a follow-up journal article exemplifies how that particular theory is used to guide actual research.