Overview
This is the first volume on social support from a nursing perspective. The author documents nursing's contribution to the field and analyzes current conceptual controversies. She emphasizes the necessity for a social support based framework and proposes a psychosocial model of health care delivery that incorporates environment, nursing and health and that regards patients as partners, families as allies.
- | Author: Miriam J. Stewart
- | Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc
- | Publication Date: Jun 09, 1993
- | Number of Pages: 246 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0803942737
- | ISBN-13: 9780803942738
