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.