Bridging the Child and Family Centered Care Gap: Therapeutic Conversations with Children and Families

ABSTRACT

Professor Linda Shields and Dr Mandie Foster from Charles Sturt University and Edith Cowan University in Australia discuss several models of care for children and families that exist and the prospect of using conversations with children and families as an intervention within healthcare to facilitate a child and family centered care approach.

KEYWORDS:

• child centered care
• family centered care
• models of care
• nursing
• pediatrics

Declaration of conflicting interests

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interest.

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Funding

This research received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors.