Wright & Leahey's Nurses and Families: A Guide to Family Assessment and Intervention

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