Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

To be known and to know others are essential aspects of social interaction. Disclosing personal information and perceiving it in others are all aspects of an individual's experience. Many problems at the forefront of our times--such as divorce, AIDS, rape, and child abuse--challenge our understanding of what should and should not be told. This timely volume presents the most recent developments in the analysis of disclosure processes. It brings together issues as diverse as loneliness, moral development, family therapy, and child abuse into a substantive whole that will prove an invaluable contribution to the field.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• List of contributors
• 1 Disclosure processes: an Introduction
• 2 Patterns and functions of self-disclosure during childhood and adolescence
• 3 Intimacy and self-disclosure in friendships
• 4 Self-disclosure and the sibling relationship: what did Romulus tell Remus?
• 5 Lonely preadolescents' disclosure to familiar peers and related social perceptions
• 6 Children's disclosure of vicariously induced emotions
• 7 Moral development and children's differential disclosure to adults versus peers
• 8 Parental influences on children's willingness to disclose
• 9 Disclosure processes: issues for child sexual abuse victims
• 10 Self-disclosure in adolescents: a family systems perspective
• Author index
• Subject index