Importance of Family Assessment


The traditional 2-parent nuclear family is not the typical family in the United States today. Family forms determine the structure of family roles. Single-parent and stepparent families are the two most common nonnuclear family forms.

-What is the importance of a good assessment of the family dynamic and disease to develop an appropriate care plan for a psychiatric patient?

-What considerations about family need to be observed by a psychiatric nurse practitioner to ensure appropriate psychiatric treatment? (family structure, presence of violence, traumatic experiences, family or personal culture, economic and housing situation, can the patient afford the ordered medications?).

Responses should be at least 250 words, no least 2 scholarly written, APA formatted, and referenced. Remember, it will be checked for plagiarism using Turnitin.