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Jean Watson's theory of human caring and transpersonal healing

Every person or patient has needs, which must be uniquely recognized, respected, and filled in the quest for healing and wholeness. Caring for the patient not only enhances recovery in any mysterious way. It can also be demonstrated and practiced by those who care for patients, especially nurses.

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Anxiety disorders in children, teens, and adults: symptoms and treatments

Anxiety is a psychological condition that presents physiological and psychiatric symptoms and has profound social impacts on the lives of those who have anxiety disorders.

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Nola Pender's health promotion model: theoretical assertions and applications

Nola Pender theory Health promotion: background, Theoretical assertions propositions, concepts, Relevant nursing practice.

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How psychodynamic therapy facilitates client change through therapeutic relationships

In order to understand how psychodynamic counselors facilitate change through a therapeutic relationship with their client, it is worth discussing what psychodynamic therapy is, how it is used, how it originated, and who some of its most notable founders were.

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Survey design for declining textbook sales at Northwestern University bookstore

You have been asked to construct five items for a survey for the university bookstore. They are concerned about consistent declines in textbook sales. They would like to figure out why they are selling fewer and fewer books every semester.

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Service learning program integrating elder mentors into secondary classrooms

Teaching Plan/Objective: Service Learning Plan for Elder Services (Professional Development Module) Elders as Resources programs address a number of the social, psychological and cognitive needs of students in five major areas of development:

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Emile Durkheim's theories of society and individual pathology

One interesting way of looking at cultural, historical, and sociological trends is to extrapolate the individual into society and vice versa.

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Francis MacNutt's healing ministries and critique of conversion theology

Mac Nutt's Healing explores the meaning and messages behind the author' own struggles with fait, healing, and personal issues. It comes from a Christian perspective and is broken up into four basic parts.

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The role of compassion in modern health care practice

Few professions offer the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of others on a daily basis. Health care is one of those professions.

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Psychological analysis of group identification and racism in Bonfire of the Vanities

"On Wall Street he and a few others -- how many? -- three hundred, four hundred, five hundred? -- had become precisely that… Masters of the Universe. There was… no limit whatsoever! Naturally he had never so much as whispered this phrase to a living soul. He was no fool.

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