title: Therapeutic letters and the family nursing unit: a legacy of advanced nursing practice.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. jmbell@ucalgary.ca
authors.forename: Janice M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Bell
authors.forename: Nancy J
authors.initials: NJ
authors.lastname: Moules
authors.forename: Lorraine M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Wright
mesh_terms: D000416:Alberta; D015709:Correspondence as Topic; D003376:Counseling / Q000379:methods*; D022143:Family Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D009720:Nurse Clinicians; D013811:Psychotherapeutic Processes