LEC 4: CFIM Flashcards
Calgary Family Intervention Model (CFIM)
- Builds on a strengths and resiliency perspective.
- It has 3 dominas: cognitive, behavioral, and affective
- By addressing all of these three domains, your nursing care will be more holostic.
- An organizing framework for conceptualizing the intersection between a particular domainn of family functioning and the specific intervention offered by the nurse.
What are the elements found in CFIM?
- Interventions
- Domains of family functioning
- Fit or meshing
What does CIFM assist in?
Assists in determining the domain of family functioning that predominantly needs changing, usually where there is the greatest suffering, and the most useful interventions to effect change in that domain.
What is the goal of nursing interventions?
- The ultimate goal of nursing interventions is to aid family in descovering new solutions to help soften or alleviate emotional, physical, and/or spiritual suffering.
- Promote, improve, or sustain functioning in the three domains of family functions.
- Cognitive, affective, and behavioural
- One intervention can simultaneously affect all three domains of family functioning.
- Family focused interventions involve all members of the family.
How do we determin the “fit” of an intervention?
- Therapeutic conversation
- Collaboration with the family
What does the “fit” involve?
Recognizing the recoprocity between RN opinions and ideas and the experiences of the family to the illness/problem.
- Are the questions I am asking fitting/effective with family/domain?
What is family functioning?
- Generally considered the family’s ability to meet the needs of it’s members
- This is about family functioning domains
- This is about our questioning techniques
- This is about nursing actions and interventions
What are the 3 domains of family functioning?
- Cognitive
- Affective
- Behavioral
What is the goal of an intervention within the cognative domain?
- To change the perceptions, beliefs, and understanding of family memebers.
- Change the way a family perceives a health problem so that family members can discover new solutions to problems.
What are examples of interventions in the cognitive domain?
- Teach patients what they are going through
- Education
- Cognitive reframing
What is the foal of an intervention in the affective domain?
- Reduce or increase intense emotions that may be impending efforts around problem solving.
- To facilitate problem solving.
What type of emotions may impede problem solving efforts?
Being overwhelemed, concerned, sad, angery, ect.
What are some examples of interventions in the affective domain?
- Validating/normalizing emotional responses
- Normalizing/reassuring changes in relationships due to illness
- Encouraging the sharing of illness narratives
- Expression of the impact of illness on various family members
- Drawing forth support
- Encouraging family members to listen to each other
What is the goal of an intervention in the behavioural domain?
- To help the family to interact with and behave differently in relation to each other
- Increase supprot
- To make family behaviours in relation to one another more supportive and accomplished
How can nurses help to make family behaviours in relation to one another more supportive and accomplished?
- Invite family memebers to engage in a specific behavioural task
- Interventions may be aimed at helping family memebers to behave and interact in ways that are different from their normal pattern