title: Personal space boundaries: clinical applications in psychiatric mental health nursing.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Theory of personal space boundaries (PSB) and its application to clinical psychiatric nursing.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To provide a nursing perspective of interventions that incorporate the interactive effects of cognition, affect, behavior, and spirituality on human experience and behavior.
  
  
  METHODS
  Theory of PSB developed by the author.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Understanding PSB allows for more effective nursing interventions.
authors.forename: A L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Scott
authors.forename: R E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Dumas
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D008960:Models, Psychological; D009742:Nursing Theory; D010550:Personal Space; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing