Communicatively managing religious identity difference in parent-child relationships: The role of accommodative and nonaccommodative communication CW Colaner, J Soliz, LR Nelson Journal of Family Communication 14 (4), 310-327, 2014 | 80 | 2014 |
Unfolding narrative meaning over time: The contributions of mother–daughter conversations of difficulty on daughter narrative sense-making and well-being HK Horstman, R Maliski, A Hays, J Cox, A Enderle, LR Nelson Communication Monographs 83 (3), 326-348, 2016 | 50 | 2016 |
“She chose us to be your parents” Exploring the content and process of adoption entrance narratives told in families formed through open adoption AH Hays, HK Horstman, CW Colaner, LR Nelson Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 33 (7), 917-937, 2016 | 46 | 2016 |
Becoming a transracial family: Communicatively negotiating divergent identities in families formed through transracial adoption LR Nelson, CW Colaner Journal of Family Communication 18 (1), 51-67, 2018 | 44 | 2018 |
Sex in college relationships: The role television plays in emerging adults’ sexual expectations in relationships H Gamble, LR Nelson Communication Monographs 83 (1), 145-161, 2016 | 36 | 2016 |
Communicatively constructing birth family relationships in open adoptive families: Naming, connecting, and relational functioning HK Horstman, CW Colaner, LR Nelson, A Bish, A Hays Journal of Family Communication 18 (2), 138-152, 2018 | 28 | 2018 |
Communicated meaning-making in foster families: Relationships between foster parents’ entrance narratives and foster child well-being LR Nelson, HK Horstman Communication Quarterly 65 (2), 144-166, 2017 | 23 | 2017 |
Setting the agenda: Black families matter D Hutchins, LR Nelson Journal of Family Communication 21 (4), 322-331, 2021 | 21 | 2021 |
The evolving nature and process of foster family communication: An application and adaptation of the family adoption communication model LR Nelson Journal of Family Theory & Review 9 (3), 366-381, 2017 | 13 | 2017 |
Discourses and themes in adoption and child welfare policies and practices in the US throughout the 19th and 20th centuries LR Nelson Adoption Quarterly 23 (4), 312-330, 2020 | 12 | 2020 |
Fostering “Family”: Communication Orientations in the foster parent-child relationship LR Nelson, CW Colaner Western Journal of Communication 84 (4), 476-498, 2020 | 11 | 2020 |
Communication privacy management in open adoption relationships: Negotiating co-ownership across in-person and mediated communication CW Colaner, AL Bish, M Butauski, A Hays, HK Horstman, LR Nelson Communication Research 49 (6), 816-837, 2022 | 10 | 2022 |
Eliciting a thousand words: A case for photo-elicitation in interpersonal communication research LR Nelson Qualitative Research Reports in Communication 20 (1), 50-57, 2019 | 8 | 2019 |
Fostering" family": How communication sustains and functions in foster families L Nelson University of Missouri-Columbia, 2014 | 7 | 2014 |
Unfolding narrative meaning over time: The cognitive and communicative components of narrative sense-making and well-being in mother-daughter conversations of difficulty HK Horstman, R Maliski, A Hays, J Cox, A Enderle, LR Nelson Communication Monographs 83, 1-23, 2015 | 6 | 2015 |
The relationship between Black racial identity, military identity, and postdeployment reintegration of Black male veterans K Winters, D Hutchins, LR Nelson Journal of Multicultural Counseling and Development 51 (4), 292-303, 2023 | 2 | 2023 |
Communicatively constructing godparenthood: Relational maintenance and relational closeness C Colaner, A Elkhalid, M Butauski, A Bish, L Nelson, J Rick Journal of Family Communication 21 (2), 107-117, 2021 | 2 | 2021 |
“Damage control”: exploring communication sense-making within foster exit conversations from the US foster parent perspective LR Nelson, M Butauski, S Atwood Journal of Applied Communication Research 52 (1), 91-109, 2024 | | 2024 |
“Look at them… wasting that good, white skin”: Exploring messages of white privilege in Black Americans’ family discourse LR Nelson, S Fitzgerald, D Hutchins Journal of Social and Personal Relationships 40 (12), 4314-4334, 2023 | | 2023 |
Introduction to the Special Issue on Communication in Black Families D Hutchins, LR Nelson Journal of Family Communication 23 (3-4), 179-187, 2023 | | 2023 |