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Nurture: The Fundamental Significance of Relationship as a Paradigm for Mental Health Nursing
Author(s) -
Raingruber Bonnie
Publication year - 2003
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.1744-6163.2003.00104.x
Subject(s) - nature versus nurture , mental health , psychology , narrative , nursing , paradigm shift , nurse education , medicine , psychotherapist , sociology , epistemology , linguistics , philosophy , anthropology
TOPIC Whether nature or nurture is the most appropriate paradigm for mental health nursing practice, education, and research. PURPOSE To present detailed information that nurture is the most inclusive and sustaining paradigm for mental health nursing. SOURCES Published literature. CONCLUSIONS Psychological, social, cultural, environmental, biological, and experience‐based problems are the root of mental illness. Mental health nursing must have a comprehensive paradigm that honors the relational nature of the nurse‐patient relationship, the critical influence of environment, the importance of biological factors, and the way that narrative understanding and history shape behavior.