title: Child psychiatric nursing and the family. A critical theory perspective.
abstract: Within the growing body of nursing literature, a relatively new method of inquiry, critical theory, has emerged. Critical theory is used as a framework toward understanding the social realities in which child psychiatric nurses must act when negotiating with family systems. Nursing's predominant view of the family, structural-functionalism, is examined by the use of the dialectic and Habermasian critique.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kendall
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003142:Communication; D005190:Family; D006801:Humans; D009742:Nursing Theory; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing; D012945:Social Values