title: Building healthy families: a program for single mothers.
abstract: With the ever-increasing number of single-parent families, innovative and creative strategies aimed to improve family health must be developed. The stress-producing lifestyle of single-parent families offers great challenges to family CNSs. In this article, a project designed to teach positive health behaviors and life skills to female-headed single-parent families is described. The project, development and implementation of an education/support group, combines health education and small group discussion for an effective therapeutic intervention for single-parent female participants.
authors.forename: L A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Butcher
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gaffney
mesh_terms: D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D009035:Mothers / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology; D009720:Nurse Clinicians; D009733:Nursing Diagnosis; D010344:Patient Advocacy; D012657:Self-Help Groups; D015406:Single Parent