Therapeutic letters and the family nursing unit: a legacy of advanced nursing practice.
This article focuses on the history of the use of therapeutic letters in the clinical scholarship of the Family Nursing Unit at the University of Calgary and offers examples of a variety of therapeutic letters written to families experiencing illness suffering. A case study from the research of Moules (2000, 2002) is offered to further illustrate the usefulness of therapeutic letters as a family nursing intervention.
Bell
Janice M
JM
University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. jmbell@ucalgary.ca
Moules
Nancy J
NJ
Wright
Lorraine M
LM
D000416:Alberta; D015709:Correspondence as Topic; D003376:Counseling / Q000379:methods*; D022143:Family Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009720:Nurse Clinicians; D013811:Psychotherapeutic Processes