Background: It is argued that patients' family should be included into the nursing care plan, not only as a partner but also as a recipient of care. However the severity and emergency of situations in the context of critical care, lead nurses to focus on technological aspects of care somehow disregarding human and family care. Objective: To identify the emotional needs of critical patients' family as well as nursing interventions responding to those needs. Methodology: An integrative literature review was performed in Science Direct and EBSCO search engines considering PICo structure (Population, Interest, Context). Six papers matched the search criteria. Results: Family needs to be given clear and honest information, to set a relationship based on proximity and trust with professional caregivers, to express their feelings and to nourish a realistic trust. Conclusion: Even if some form of consensus was found between different authors, the limited number of retrieved papers point out the need for further research.

Visualisation has been reported as a possible intervention in Health Psychology. The authors present a brief literature review of the recent research of this technique which have been showing positive results in healthy and seek people, in acute or chronic diseases, in hospital and home care, trough the life span. It is also presented the need of further research in order to better understand the process of visualisation and his possible applications.