There is growing recognition that current methodology to understand complex interventions
in health-care often falls short of comprehensively explaining the interventions. Health-care …

The illness suffering of families in childhood cancer is characterized in part by a loss of
family normalcy. Hermeneutic phenomenology and family process research methods were …

Thanks to advances in the science of intimate relationships (Bell, 2011; Gottman, 2001;
Gottman, Gottman, & DeClaire, 2007; Parker-Pope, 2010) as well as a plethora of self-help …

This paper addresses the importance of attending to the interplay of one person's grief with
that of another in the context of the family's relationship to the culture at large, where the …

Nurses have a key role to play in therapeutic interventions for bereaved and grieving
families. In this article, hermeneutic inquiry is used to uncover what families found helpful or …

Teaching graduate family nursing students the important and delicate practice of entering
into and mitigating families' illness suffering signifies an educational practice that is rigorous …

The purpose of this book chapter is to review the current science of Family Systems Nursing
(FSN) and describe programs of family health intervention research that have contributed …

This article describes research that was conducted to articulate interventions with families
experiencing grief. Using an interpretive methodology framed by philosophical …