Includes bibliographical references and index.

Family health care nursing : an introduction / Joanna Rowe Kaakinen -- Theoretical foundations for the nursing of families / Joanna Rowe Kaakinen -- Family demography : continuity and change in North American families / Lynne M. Casper, Alli Coritz -- Family policy : the intersection of family policies, health disparities, and health care policies / Deborah Padgett Coehlo, Tammy L. Henderson, Chuck Lester -- Family nursing assessment and intervention / Joanna Rowe Kaakinen -- Family health promotion / YeounSoo Kim-Godwin, Melissa Robinson -- Nursing care of LGBTQ families / Judith A. MacDonnell, Mary E. Bartlett, Aaron Tabacco -- Genomics and family nursing across the life span / Marcia Van Riper, Louise Fleming -- Families living with chronic illness / Jacqueline F. Webb, Maria Elena Ruiz, Kimberly E. Kintz -- Families in palliative and end-of-life care / Carole A. Robinson, Rose Steele, Kimberley A. Widger, Melissa Robinson -- Trauma and family nursing / Deborah Padgett Coehlo, Henny Breen -- Family nursing with childbearing families / Linda Veltri, Karline Wilson-Mitchell, Joyce O'Mahony -- Family child health nursing / Deborah Padgett Coehlo -- Family nursing in acute care adult settings / Paul Smith, Melissa Robinson -- Family health in mid- and later life / Diana L. White, Juliana C. Cartwright -- Family mental health nursing / Laura S. Rodgers -- Families and community and public health nursing / Linda L. Eddy, Annette Bailey, Dawn Doutrich.