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Nurse–client processes in mental health: recipients’ perspectives
Author(s) -
COATSWORTHPUSPOKY R.,
FORCHUK C.,
WARDGRIFFIN C.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
journal of psychiatric and mental health nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.69
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1365-2850
pISSN - 1351-0126
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2850.2006.00968.x
Subject(s) - feeling , nursing , active listening , mental health , psychology , nurse–client relationship , value (mathematics) , therapeutic relationship , medicine , social psychology , psychotherapist , machine learning , computer science
An ethnonursing method was selected to explore and describe nursing support relationships, from the perspectives of recipients, within the mental health subculture. Data sources consisted of three semi‐structured client interviews ( n = 14) and field notes. When nurses were described as nice and friendly, and validated the client as a person by listening, three overlapping phases of development emerged from the data. These included: a glimmer of help, exploring and problem solving, and saying goodbye. When clients had negative experiences with nurses, they felt a lack of trust towards nurses and felt that their feelings were left unexplored. As a result, the relationships deteriorated. Deterioration began immediately in the first phase called withholding, and continued through the phases of avoiding and ignoring, and struggling with and making sense of. These findings raise healthcare providers’ awareness about developing and deteriorating nurse–client relationships, and support the value of the therapeutic relationship as an instrument to restore and promote clients’ health.