Childhood maltreatment
Several individuals have experienced childhood maltreatment. When transitioning from childhood to adulthood after such experiences, these individuals, potential concerns, and physiological needs during this life transition occur. Such individuals are always full of fear, loneliness, and even disappointments. They are usually concerned with how they will parent positively, constructively, and effectively, when they will have children and when to become new parents. This is from the perception that their childhood experiences created a risk of creating family dysfunction to their children. To them, grandparents and benefactors outside their families are the ones who increase their vulnerability and resilience of the maltreatment experiences they faced. For such a popution,nurses need to intervene. Through normal and undisrupted adult development programs, I believe they need to be involved towards forgiveness facilitation development when examining this population especially when they have innate desire to forgive keeping in mind the potential risks that may arise.
Reference
Mary De Chesney and Barbara A. Anderson. Caring for the Vulnerable: perspectives in Nursing theory, practice and research. 5th edition 2020.