Integrating Social Support in Nursing Patrick Whitaker a collective scourge to desperadoes

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Hindelang Book Award for the Most Outstanding Contribution to Research in Criminology Since the mid-1990s

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Integrating Social Support in Nursing Patrick Whitaker a collective scourge to desperadoesThis 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.