Nurses and Families: A Guide to Family Assessment and Intervention, 6th Edition

by Lorraine M. Wright, Maureen Leahey

The ideal “how-to” book!

• Innovative ideas to increase critical thinking
• Practical guidelines for family interviewing
• Clinical tools, skills and examples
• Breaches the boundaries of practice, education and research

Harness the power of the nurse-family relationship!

Use the thoroughly revised evidence-based Calgary Family Assessment and Intervention Models to competently and compassionately assess and intervene with families experiencing illness, loss, and/or disability.

From theory to practice, polish the skills you need to…

• Use questions in family interviewing more effectively
• Conduct a fifteen minute family interview
• Avoid the three most common errors in family nursing
• Create genograms for families with multiple unions, parents and siblings
• Prepare, conduct, terminate, and document family interviews

“…a practical, detailed, “how-to” guide to the nursing of families, offering clinical guidelines of how to prepare, conduct, document a 15-minute family interview in a variety of settings.”

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