Download or read book Relational Transitions written by Richard L. Conville and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1991-10-30 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conville solves the problem of how to think about the process of communication in personal relationships by moving beyond stage models of relational development and proposing a new model that depicts a four-phase structure of transition between relational stages. The Relational Transitions perspective offers both a conceptual and a methodological alternative to current work in relationship development. Though its focus is only a part of the human communication field, its principles can be applied to other communication contexts successfully.