HUTTER, Mark, editor, THE FAMILY EXPERIENCE: A Reader in Cultural Diversity

1993 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 152-153
Author(s):  
Betty G. Farrell
2016 ◽  
Vol 44 (12) ◽  
pp. 280-280
Author(s):  
Jennifer Tcharmtchi ◽  
Jill Kelly ◽  
Nicholas Ettinger ◽  
M. Hossein Tcharmtchi ◽  
Karla Abela

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-120
Author(s):  
Ana Sofía Ramírez Dávila ◽  
Alejandra Romina Naal Romero ◽  
Edith Karina Salinas Cervantes ◽  
Carlos Antonio Pérez Ochoa

ResumenEn la presente investigación se realizó un análisis del alcoholismo desde el enfoque cualitativo, partiendo del supuesto de que esta metodología brinda un mejor acercamiento a la vivencia de las familias con un miembro alcohólico. Se tomó como eje central la perspectiva que tienen los hijos de un padre alcohólico sobre la experiencia misma, dado que las investigaciones señalan que dentro de la familia resultan ser los más afectados. Se utilizó como herramienta de análisis las historias de vida de 4 jóvenes estudiantes universitarios hijos de un padre alcohólico, obteniendo una categoría que permitió desentrañar la complejidad de la vivencia: “Cambio en la perspectiva del hijo y su participación en la familia”. De acuerdo con las interpretaciones realizadas se reafirma que una adicción causa más daño físico, psicológico y emocional a la familia que al propio enfermo; a su vez se concluyó que dicha problemática provoca inestabilidad en el ambiente familiar y se percibe como hostil, lo cual lleva al hijo a resignificar el concepto de familia que tiene, de modo que cambia su postura dentro de la misma, en un inicio tomando funciones que no le corresponden para terminar desvinculándose debido al desgaste de las relaciones paterno-filiales.   Palabras Clave: Alcoholismo, Padre, Hijos, Perspectiva, Vivencia.AbstractOn the current research it was developed an alcoholism analysis from the qualitative approach asumming that this kind of methodology brings a deeper look of the family experience with an alcoholic member. The children perspective was taken as a central matter of the study through living with an alcoholic father, given that the literature has said that they turn out to be the most affected. According to the purpose of the research, the life stories of four young college students with an alcoholic father served, getting from it a main category that simplifies the living of it: “Child’s development within the family and changes in their vision of it”. In obedience to the interpretations, it was confirmed that an addiction causes more physical, psychological and emotional damage to the family than to the addict. It also has come to the conclusion that this problematic causes inestability in the family enviroment perceived as hostile which leads the children to change the meaning they give to family while it changes their position within. At first, the children assume responsabilities that don’t belong to them and then they end up disassociating from the family due to the wear of the parent-child relationships.Key words: Alcoholism, father, children, vision, experience.


Author(s):  
Barbara L. Jones ◽  
Mary Jo Gilmer ◽  
Jessica Parker-Raley ◽  
Deborah L. Dokken ◽  
David R. Freyer ◽  
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The family experience of cancer 100 Children and families 102 Employment and finances 104 Culture and the meaning of cancer 106 Gender, age, and cancer 108 Ethnicity and cancer 110 Threats to personal identity 112 Most people experience cancer within the context of their family. What constitutes a family varies considerably, but it generally means a household, or those people one is closest to, whether they are related by blood or not. Family members as ‘carers’ have a significant role in providing physical and emotional care during the cancer journey. The experience of cancer is shared within the family in a number of ways....


2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (6) ◽  
pp. 42-51
Author(s):  
Natalie S. McAndrew ◽  
Laura Mark ◽  
Mary Butler

Background Organizations motivated to provide high-quality care in the intensive care unit are exploring strategies to engage families in patient care. Such initiatives are based on emerging evidence that family engagement improves quality and safety of care. Objective To gather family feedback to guide future nurse-led quality improvement efforts to engage families in the intensive care unit setting. Methods The Critical Care Family Satisfaction Survey, which consists of 20 items rated from 1 (very dissatisfied) to 5 (very satisfied), was paired with open-ended questions and administered to families during the intensive care unit stay from March through December 2017. Content analysis was used to identify themes regarding the family experience. Results Responses were collected from 178 family members. The mean (SD) score on the survey was 4.65 (0.33). Five themes emerged regarding the delivery of family care in the intensive care unit: family interactions with the interdisciplinary team, information sharing and effective communication, family navigation of the intensive care unit environment, family engagement in the intensive care unit, and quality of patient care. Conclusions This quality improvement project provided foundational information to guide family engagement efforts in the intensive care unit. Real-time solicitation of feedback is essential to improving the family experience and guiding family-centered care delivery in this practice environment.


2020 ◽  
Vol 103 ◽  
pp. 106679 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rhys H. Thomas ◽  
Donald P. Craig ◽  
John Paul Leach
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2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 291-302
Author(s):  
Zahra Sheikhalipour ◽  
Vahid Zamanzadeh ◽  
Leili Borimnejad ◽  
Sarah E Newton ◽  
Leila Valizadeh

Background Despite the importance of family and its relationship to positive transplant outcomes, little is known about family experiences following organ transplantation from the perspective of the transplant recipients. The literature is also devoid of information that describes the family experiences of Muslim transplant recipients. Aims The purpose of this study was to describe Muslim transplant recipients’ family experiences following organ transplantation. Methods A hermeneutical phenomenological approach was employed to determine the emergent themes present in the data. The sample was composed of 12 Muslim organ transplant recipients (heart, kidney and liver) living in Iran. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with each participant. Results The primary constitutive pattern that emerged from the interview data was ‘Altered Family Relationships’ and three themes: fear in relationships, abnormal relationships, and the family at the centre of organ transplant issues. Conclusions There are several important findings in this study, notably that Muslim transplant recipients describe their family experiences following organ transplantation as ‘altered’ and not as they were pre-transplant. More research is needed that focuses on the family experience post-transplant, and how Muslim transplant recipient families are impacted by the transplant experience.


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