"Duck, Steve (ed.); Gilmour, Robin, (ed.)" <br/><br/>
Personal relationship 

 - London  Academic Press  1981 
 - 288: ill. 
<br/><br/> Development of personal relationships is only barely understood in either of the two <br/>senses (namely, relationship growth during acquaintance on the one hand, and <br/>relationships in different developmental age groups on the other hand). Despite the <br/>vigour of research by developmental psychologists into mother-infant relationships, <br/>this has not extended into later points of childhood and it is significant that the <br/>publication of books on children's friendships developed only very recently (e.g. <br/>Foot et al., 1980a; Rubin, 1980; Asher and Gottman, 1981). At the other end of the <br/>life-cycle also, almost nothing is known about the significant features of relationships <br/>in the elderly and very little is clear about the changes in personal relationships that <br/>occur in adulthood. Equally, theoretical views on the development of relationships <br/>from strangers to close friends were rare until the early 1970s and even the ones put <br/>forward then have had only infrequent and un systematic testing - and that usually <br/>by their authors alone<br/> 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>122228022 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Psychology
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>158.2 PER