title: Understanding hospitality house guests' needs: a brief case report.
abstract: A.E. Kazak's (2006) call to develop theory-driven and empirically supported programs aimed at strengthening the competencies of families affected by pediatric illness applies to both medical and nonmedical facilities and institutions that care for pediatric patients and their loved ones. M.K.W. Duncan and A. Blugis (in press, this issue) note that despite the intuitive and practical nature of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs, no theory translates into an infallible understanding of any individual guest's needs or a program of universally applied best practice standards for meeting those needs. Using Maslow's theory as a framework, this brief report describes the complexity and fluidity of one mother's needs during her stay at a hospitality house following the birth of her premature twin babies.
authors: Department of Psychology, Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania, Bloomsburg, PA, USA. mduncan@bloomu.edu
authors: Mary Katherine Waibel
authors: MK
authors: Duncan
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006798:Housing; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D020380:Needs Assessment; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D014427:Twins; D014789:Visitors to Patients