Amanda Jean Holman, PhD
Associate Professor
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College of Arts and Sciences
Communication Studies
Health Administration and Policy
HCCA - Hitchcock Center for Communication Art
Amanda Jean Holman, PhD
Associate Professor
Dr. Holman research and teaching focuses on interpersonal, family, and health communication. She teachers classes on the connection of family communication and health/well-being, as well as courses on interpersonal communication, family communication, and dark-side of personal relationships. Her current research interest focuses on difficult communication within family and peer relationships with the goal of discovering new approaches to guide individuals and families through the difficulty and discomfort of these conversations. Specifically, she is working with high school adolescents and parents in Nebraska to gain their perspectives of the parent-adolescent “sex talk” to better inform future parent-child sex talk interventions. Dr. Holman is also conducting research on how couples communicate and cope with miscarriage. Along with individual research projects, she directs an undergraduate research team that play a critical role in her community-based research and outreach.
Department
Communication Studies
Position
Associate Professor
Publications
- Journal of family communication
Holman Amanda, etal “The Story Really Stayed with Me”: Emerging Adult College Students’ Stories of Sexual Activity and Intimate Relationships Recalled from Parents, Siblings, and Friends 2025 - American journal of sexuality education
Cooke-Jackson Angela, etal Elaborating on ‘The Talk’ in ‘Sex Talks’: An Interdisciplinary Exploration of the Place of Communication Science in Sexuality Education and Advocacy, p. 1 - 19 2023 - Journal of family communication
Holman Amanda, etal 'Did I Say Too Much? Did I Say enough?': Balancing the Competing Struggles Parents Experience in Talking to Their Children About Sex-Related Topics
ahead-of-print:ahead-of-print, p. 1 - 12 2023 - Health Communication
Horstman Haley Kranstuber, etal Memorable Messages Embedded in Men’s Stories of Miscarriage 2021 - Southern Communication Journal
Horstman Haley Kranstuber, etal Men Coping with Miscarriage
86:3, p. 256 - 267 2021 - Health Communication
Horstman Haley Kranstuber, etal Men’s Use of Metaphors to Make Sense of Their Spouse’s Miscarriage
35:5, p. 538 - 547 2020 - Journal of Family Communication
Holman Amanda, etal Similarities and Dissimilarities in Spouses’ Narratives of Miscarriage
19:4, p. 293 - 310 2019 - Health Communication
Horstman Haley Kranstuber, etal Communicated sense-making after miscarriage
33:10, p. 1317 - 1326 2018 - Communication Monographs
Holman Amanda, etal “Say something instead of nothing”
85:3, p. 357 - 379 2018 - Journal of Family Communication
Carr Kristen, etal Giving Voice to the Silence of Family Estrangement: Comparing Reasons of Estranged Parents and Adult Children in a Nonmatched Sample
15:2, p. 130 - 140 2015 - Southern Communication Journal
Holman Amanda Jean, etal High School Adolescents' Perceptions of the Parent–Child Sex Talk: How Communication, Relational, and Family Factors Relate to Sexual Health
80:5, p. 388 - 403 2015 - Journal of Family Communication
Sillars Alan, etal Conversation and conformity orientations as predictors of observed conflict tactics in parent-adolescent discussions
14:1, p. 16 - 31 2014 - Journal of Divorce and Remarriage
Metts Sandra, etal The Experience and Expression of Stepchildren's Emotions at Critical Events in Stepfamily Life
54:5, p. 414 - 437 2013 - Western Journal of Communication
Stephenson-Abetz Jenna, etal Home is where the Heart is:Facebook and the Negotiation of 'Old' and 'New' During the Transition to College
76:2, p. 175 - 193 2012 - Health Communication
Holman Amanda, etal Talk About 'Hooking Up'
27:2, p. 205 - 216 2012
Grants
Family Communication About Healthy Relationships and Sex: Exploring How Parents-Adolescents Dyads Co-Construct Their Values, Norms, and Expectations of Sex-Related Topics Through Communication and Storytelling/Sponsor: Dr. George F. Haddix President's Faculty Research Grant
Family Communication About Healthy Relationships and Sex: How Parents-Adolescents Co-Construct Their Values, Norms, and Expectations of Sex-Related Topics/Sponsor: CURAS Faculty Research Fund
Communication Apprehension Reduction: Assessing the Effectiveness of an Online Public Speaking Course/Sponsor: Creighton University Center for Faculty Excellence/CFE
Developing Evidence-Based Communication Tools for Parents and Caregivers/Sponsor: CURAS Magis Investigatio Research Award/MIRA