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A Holistic‐Existential Model for Psychiatric Nursing
Author(s) -
Hummelvoll Jan Kåre,
Silva Antonio Barbosa
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
perspectives in psychiatric care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1744-6163
pISSN - 0031-5990
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6163.1994.tb00229.x
Subject(s) - existentialism , openness to experience , conformity , meaning (existential) , psychology , relation (database) , nursing , psychotherapist , medicine , epistemology , social psychology , philosophy , database , computer science
The authors offer a holistic model for psychiatric nursing based on a existential concept of man. They assert that the biomedical model of health and sickness is not sufficient to understand the reality in which psychiatric nurses practice. Within this model, understanding clients in relation to their life contexts becomes the focus, as well as trying to comprehend what effects suffering has on their ability to function. The relationship between nurse and client is discussed from a point of view that considers central existential precepts, such as: equality, encounter/being present, self‐esteem/significance, responsibility and choice, objectives, meaning and clarification of values, guilt and atonement, openness and insight, conformity versus rebellion and finally hope.