Calgary Family Intervention Model: One Way to Think About Change

Abstract

This article defines and describes the Calgary Family Intervention Model (CFIM). CFIM is an organizing framework conceptualizing the intersect between a particular domain (i.e., cognitive, affective, or behavioral) of family functioning and a specific intervention offered by a health professional. Examples and discussion of interventions such as storying the illness experience, encouraging respite, and asking interventive questions are presented. CFIM is one way that health professionals can conceptualize about change.

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“…The Family Advisor Model has reportedly improved coping and decision making by parents of sick children (Bidmead, Davis, & Day, 2002). Also in nursing practice, skills of therapeutic communication are embedded in models of care from FSN that are applied internationally, and support improved emotional health and confidence in caregiving (Bell & Wright, 2015;Wright & Leahey, 1994). In keeping with this, an integrative review by Östlund and Persson (2014) found improved self-efficacy in patients, parents and families, when empowerment was promoted through a reciprocal relationship between families and healthcare providers.…”

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“…Family therapists have used rituals to intervene effectively and to clarify family dynamics (Selvini Palazzoli, Boscolo, Cecchin, & Prata, 1978;Wright & Leahey, 1994), and to facilitate movement in clients' lives (Wyrostok, 1995). Hecker and Schindler (1994) offer the theoretical means to classify the function of rituals along the dimensions of cohesion, adaptability, and communication.…”

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“…() demonstrated that the Calgary Family Intervention Model (CFIM) is a good family system nursing approach for psychiatric nurses caring for Chinese individuals with a mental illness and their families. By providing a meta‐perspective, the CFIM (Wright & Leahey , ) emphasizes that each family is unique and has the potential to change the presenting problem. This model focusses on improving and sustaining family functioning in the cognitive, affective, and behavioural domains.…”