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Child Psychiatric Nursing and the Family
Author(s) -
KENDALL JUDY
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of child and adolescent psychiatric nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.331
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1744-6171
pISSN - 1073-6077
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6171.1989.tb00380.x
Subject(s) - dialectic , negotiation , nursing , functionalism (philosophy of mind) , nursing theory , critical theory , structural functionalism , psychology , medicine , medline , sociology , epistemology , social science , political science , philosophy , law , cognitive science
Within the growing body of nursing literature, a relatively new method of inquiry, critical theory, has emerged. Critical theory is used as a framework toward understanding the social realities in which child psychiatric nurses must act when negotiating with family systems. Nursing's predominant view of the family, structural‐functionalism, is examined by the use of the dialectic and Habermasian critique.