- abuse
- physical, sexual, or emotional harm inflicted on others
- Calgary Family Assessment Model (CFAM)
- model used to assess a family’s strengths, resources, problems, and illness suffering by studying the family’s structure, development, and function
- Calgary Family Intervention Model
- model based on CFAM; provides a framework for nurses to use to have therapeutic conversations that target the family’s functioning as a system using three domains of family function: cognitive, behavioral, and affective
- developmental crisis
- a crisis resulting from predictable change due to normal growth and development
- Duvall’s Family Development Theory
- a theory of family development that asserts that families must move through certain stages, in order, and in each stage attain certain developmental tasks
- ecomap
- visual assessment tool that illustrates the relationships between a family and its social network
- emotional abuse
- a behavior that harms a person’s self-worth or emotional well-being
- family
- a group of two or more people (one of whom is the householder) related by birth, marriage, or adoption and residing together (including related subfamily members)
- family group
- any two or more people (not necessarily including a householder) residing together and related by birth, marriage, or adoption
- family health assessment
- a process of collecting data from family members and organizing this data
- family household
- a group of two or more people (one of whom is the householder) related by birth, marriage, or adoption, including any unrelated people (unrelated subfamily members and/or secondary individuals) who may reside with them
- family nursing
- a nursing discipline that involves caring for the family as one unit or group of people
- family unit
- a household maintained by a householder who is in a family; includes any unrelated people (unrelated subfamily members and/or secondary individuals) who may reside together
- general systems theory
- an interdisciplinary conceptual framework focusing on wholeness, patterns, relationship, hierarchical order, integration, and organization of phenomena
- genogram
- a diagram that depicts family ties through birth and marriage
- intimate partner violence (IVP)
- abuse that is caused by someone who is or has been romantically involved with the victim
- neglect
- the failure to meet the basic physiological and emotional needs of children and vulnerable adults
- physical abuse
- the use of physical force to cause physical injury
- sexual abuse
- pressuring or forcing a person to engage in sexual acts
- situational crisis
- a crisis that can either be predictable, such as a divorce, or unpredictable, such as a natural disaster or family death
- transactional model
- a family nursing model that looks at family processes and the family’s relationships or its transactions with other institutions