Integrating Social Support in Nursing

by Miriam Stewart

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.

246 pages, Hardcover

First published June 9, 1993