Calgary Family Assessment Model

There are more than 7 billion people in the world and to each of them the word “family” takes up very different meanings. Thus, the word could very likely have more than 7 billion ways to describe it. In the context of health care, family is even more important because of its diverse roles in impacting an individual’s health. Therefore, as a nursing student, it is crucial to be able to assess one’s family and learn about its effects on the healing process of that individual. The main focus of this paper is to use the Calgary Family Assessment Model (CFAM) – cite – to explore the complex and dynamic interrelationship between family and the overall well being of the individual. Then the nurse identifies the strengths and challenges to incorporate
They came from being high school sweetheart when they were 16 to finally get married when they were 19. Since then, the couple stayed loving each other for nearly 38 years until the day that cancer took Arthur away from Molly. The couple’s first wonderful experience that they spent together during their 38 years of bonded love was their one-year honeymoon trip travelling across the earth. Molly and Arthur went from Barbados to Hawaii to San Francisco, just lived life at that moment and discovered the world together. After that, the two returned to Ontario to start building a life with each other. As they were living in the 60s-70s, when the feminist movement was thriving strongly, the role between husband and wife changed compared to that of their parents’. Both Molly and Arthur were the breadwinners of the family and the housework was equally divided between the two of them.
About eleven years into the marriage, Molly and Arthur had a baby girl, Ginny, and she was their only child. Ginny was their precious little girl. For Molly, the three of them were the Three Musketeer who took care of each other and together fought against the dark forces to protect the world. As parents, the patient and her husband defined very specific roles in raising Ginny. Between the two of them, the mom would play the disciplinary role – the “bad cop”, and the dad would have a more playful, indulgent role – the “good
There are always ups and downs. The struggles are what bring everyone in a family together and Molly’s family is no exception. For Molly, the darkest moment that had happened to her family was when her daughter, who was 16 at the time, was suffering from lupus. Ginny was on the verge of life and death fighting on a hospital bed. At that time, Molly and her husband felt desperately useless seeing their daughter’s condition deteriorating painfully everyday without being able to help. However, they thrived in the difficult situation through constant support of each other. One person pulled the other up from emotional devastation, kept encouraging and empowering one another. Luckily, in the end, Ginny overcame the disease and were able to come back to function normally