Mental health on this study
RESEARCHERS, EDUCATORS, and clinicians have long acknowledged the transformative impact of the mid-20th century focus on interpersonal relations and relationships on nursing, in general, and psychiatric nursing, in particular (Lego 1999 and Reed, 1995). Today, the work of nursing is inextricably relationship-centered (Duffy and Hoskins (2003). Some of the most compelling theoretical and methodological work in the discipline encourages practitioners in current practice to consider ways in which biases from ethnocultural variations (Choi, 2002) or racism (Kendall and Hatton (2002), to name but a few, affect the construction and experience of therapeutic relationships. But relationships are themselves embedded in particular environments. ...