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A Christmas Without Memories

Beliefs About Grief and Mothering—A Clinical Case Analysis

Nancy J. Moules, RN, PhD

University of Calgary

Lorraine M. Thirsk, RN, MN

University of Calgary

Janice M. Bell, RN, PhD

University of Calgary

In clinical work using the Illness Beliefs Model, therapeutic leverage is focused on challenging constraining beliefs of family members that are contributing to their suffering. This challenge occurs in many ways, including offering alternative facilitating beliefs that may lead to healing rather than suffering. This article describes an exemplar of clinical work with a family who sought services in the Family Nursing Unit at the University of Calgary, with the presenting concern of unresolved grief. This analysis describes the therapeutic conversation that occurred between the family and a team of nurse clinicians, where the young woman’s beliefs about grief and mothering were distinguished as beliefs that were contributing to her emotional pain and her belief in her mothering capabilities. The nursing team offered alternative beliefs of which the family rapidly embraced and, subsequently, experienced diminishment of the suffering previously experienced.

Key Words: family systems nursing • grief • therapeutic conversations • suffering

Journal of Family Nursing, Vol. 12, No. 4, 426-441 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1074840706294244
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