Watson’s Carative Factors | Watson’s Caritas Processes | Focus Group Themes |
Humanistic-altruistic values | Practicing loving-kindness & equanimity for self and other. | REVERENCE/RESPECT DIGNITY-VALUE OF HUMAN LIFE
BONDING SENSITIVE TO SELF AND OTHER
GOOD COMMMUNICATION
COMPETENCE
WILLFULNESS
DEEP CARING |
Instilling/enabling faith & hope | Being authentically present to/enabling/sustaining/honoring deep belief system and subjective world of self/other. | |
Cultivation of sensitivity to one’s self and other | Cultivating of one’s own spiritual practices; deepening self-awareness, going beyond “ego self”. | |
Development of helping-trusting, human caring relationship | Developing and sustaining a helping-trusting, authentic caring relationship. | |
Promotion and acceptance of expression of positive and negative feelings | Being present to, and supportive of, the expression of positive and negative feelings as a connection with deeper spirit of self and the one-being-cared-for. | |
Systematic use of scientific (creative) problem-solving caring process | Creatively using presence of self and all ways of knowing/multiple ways of Being/doing as part of the caring process; engaging in artistry of caring-healing practices. | |
Promotion of transpersonal teaching-learning | Engaging in genuine teaching-learning experiences that attend to whole person, their meaning; attempting to stay within other’s frame of reference. | |
Provision for a supportive, protective, and/or corrective mental, social, spiritual environment | Creating healing environment at all levels (physical, non-physical, subtle environment of energy and consciousness whereby wholeness, beauty, comfort, dignity and peace are potentiated. | |
Assistance with gratification of human need | Assisting with basic needs, with an intentional, caring consciousness of touching and working with embodied spirit of individual, honoring unity of Being; allowing for spiritual emergence. | |
Allowance for existential-phenomenological spiritual dimensions | Opening and attending to spiritual-mysterious, unknown existential dimensions of life-death; attending to soul care for self and one-being-cared-for. |