Involving families with the client's treatment is an important aspect of family nursing. It is important to involve them as much as appropriate for the formulation and implementation of:
1. Family identity.
2. Hope, support, and happiness.
3. Behavioral contracts.
4. Positive client behavior.
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Rationale: Family involvement is a powerful and useful catalyst for promoting and maintaining behavioral change. Significant others, particularly those with whom the client resides or will reside, are likely to provide important input regarding the level of contract adherence. It is, therefore, important to involve them as much as appropriate in the formulation and implementation of the behavioral contract. If the details of the contract do not work for the involved family, they will not work for the client.
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