title: A relationship-based model for psychiatric nursing practice.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This article synthesizes research and theory in information processing, infant development, attachment theory, and trauma, and proposes a treatment framework for psychiatric nursing practice.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The primacy of the nurse--patient relationship is central to healing, and elements of the psychotherapeutic relationship are delineated.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This model has the potential to serve as a practice framework for psychiatric nursing, for all levels of psychiatric nursing practice.
authors.affiliation: Fairfield University School of Nursing, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. kwheeler@mail.fairfield.edu
authors.forename: Kathleen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wheeler
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000503:physiopathology; D018939:Holistic Nursing; D006803:Human Development; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000451:nursing / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D016294:Models, Nursing; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D011568:Psychiatric Nursing; D011613:Psychotherapy