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Commendations: Listening to the Silent Side of a Family Intervention

University of Calgary

Lorraine M. Wright, R.N., Ph.D.

University of Calgary

A therapeutic conversation of one family's experience in a traumatic house fire provides a springboard for discussion and illustrates the complexities of the family intervention known as a commendation. This intervention is one of the micromoves described in the Illness Beliefs Model. Commendations are discussed within a strengths-and-resource discourse and defined and contrasted with similar therapeutic interventions, and questions are raised and extended about the nature of these practices. The authors suggest that exclusively attending to the verbal aspect of commendations may obscure equally meaningful ways that this intervention is actualized in therapeutic relationships.

Key Words: family intervention • family nursing • commendation • family resilience

Journal of Family Nursing, Vol. 9, No. 2, 130-150 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/1074840703009002002


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