Sharon I McDonough-Means

Fostering a healing presence and investigating its mediators.

The Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine 2004 Sharon I McDonough-Means, Mary Jo Kreitzer, Iris R. Bell

The purpose of this paper is the exploration and explication of the complex phenomena of "healing presence" and of appropriately supportive theoretical approaches to integrate emerging models for research design. Healing presence is described as an interpersonal, intrapersonal, and transpersonal to transcendent phenomenon that leads to a beneficial, therapeutic, and/or positive spiritual change...