A unitary healing praxis model for women in despair

Nursing Science Quarterly

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 123-132

  Cowling III, W Richard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

Author keywords

Nursing theory; Praxis; Theory development; Unitary science

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; KNOWLEDGE; LEARNED HELPLESSNESS; LIFE EVENT; MENTAL HEALTH; METHODOLOGY; MODEL; MORALITY; NURSE ATTITUDE; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; REVIEW; SOCIAL ISOLATION; THINKING; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; COMMUNICATION; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HELPLESSNESS, LEARNED; HOLISTIC HEALTH; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; MENTAL HEALTH; MODELS, NURSING; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MORALE; NURSE'S ROLE; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PHILOSOPHY, NURSING; POWER (PSYCHOLOGY); RESEARCH DESIGN; SOCIAL ISOLATION; THINKING; WOMEN; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 33645297154     PISSN: 08943184     EISSN: 15527409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0894318406286590     Document Type: Review

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