title: Touch and visualisation to facilitate a therapeutic relationship in an intensive care unit--a personal experience.
abstract: This paper describes how the nature of touch was explored and utilised in nursing practice to promote a therapeutic relationship between nurse and client in an intensive care setting. It explains how this, and other complementary therapies such as visualisation and relaxation techniques, were used to facilitate a counselling situation, and also to effect the resolution of acute anxiety as an alternative to the traditional allopathic approach.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Green
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D003422:Critical Care; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009136:Muscular Dystrophies / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D009732:Nursing Care; D012064:Relaxation Therapy; D014110:Touch