title: Codependency: a concomitant field of interest in research into the phenomenon caring.
abstract: The growing popularity of caring is evident throughout the nursing profession. Research into the phenomenon caring, however, necessitates that caring as an ethic be distinguished from pseudo caring actions and experiences. Codependence and codependency are proposed as being of a pseudo-caring nature. Research interest into this field of study needs to be kindled.
authors.affiliation: Department of Advanced Nursing Sciences UNISA.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: van der Wal
mesh_terms: D017028:Caregivers / Q000523:psychology*; D017004:Codependency, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D009732:Nursing Care