title: Person-centered counseling: application in an intensive care setting.
abstract: Nursing care in an intensive care unit focuses, quite appropriately, on the patient's physical condition. However, the patient has emotional concerns, fears, and anxieties while we are busy attending to his or her physical needs. How can we blend high-technology physical care with the emotional care that patients and their families require? Person-centered counseling is one theoretic model that can be used to achieve this balance.
authors.forename: L L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Stockdale
mesh_terms: D003376:Counseling / Q000379:methods*; D003422:Critical Care / Q000379:methods* / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations