History of the International Family Nursing Conferences

The First International Family Nursing Conference was hosted in June 1988 by the University of Calgary, Faculty of Nursing under the leadership of Dr. Lorraine M. Wright. Approximately 400 participants from 15 countries attended this first conference. In 2013, the 11th International Family Nursing Conference will be taking place in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Read More >>

Family Externship workshop: A Life-Changing Moment

Dr. Lorraine Wright and I (along with our colleagues Wendy Watson Nelson and Nancy Moules) have offered the Family Externship Workshop since 1987.

I just had lunch with a nurse who completed the Externship workshop in 2001. She came to the workshop disillusioned with her nursing career and with well developed plans to leave nursing and become an interior designer. She told me that workshop helped clarify her beliefs about what she valued and gave her new skills and confidence to offer therapeutic conversations with the individuals and families experiencing cancer. She has never looked back and is now in a senior nursing leadership position, still advocating for compassionate, family focused care that acknowledges that all health care occurs within a RELATIONSHIP. The workshop focuses on increasing capacity of health care providers to enter into relationships with individuals and families and address illness suffering and family healing. Read More >>

Practice Units: Family Systems Perspective to Guide Practice with families experiencing illness

Practice Units (established for education, research and/or service) where a Family Systems approach is used to guide practice with families experiencing illness: Read More >>

5 Hot Tips for Writing Therapeutic Letters

Therapeutic letters were first introduced to the world of clinical practice with families by the creative clinical work of David Epston of New Zealand and the late Michael White of Australia (Epston, 1994; White, 1995; White & Epston, 1990). My colleagues, students, and I have used this intervention in our practice with families experiencing serious illness (Bell, Moules, & Wright, 2009). Together as a clinical team, we have written hundreds of therapeutic letters.

"The Letter" Rose Aimee Belanger

A recent special issue on Therapeutic Letters* has been published in the February 2009 issue of the Journal of Family Nursing* which features the doctoral thesis of Dr. Nancy Moules, whose research I supervised. David Epston called Nancy’s article in this special issue, “The Past and Future of Therapeutic Letters…”, the “best paper ever written on the subject”. Read More >>

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