WATSON’S THEORY OF

TRANSPERSONAL CARING
BY: GROUP 3
 TRANSPERSONAL CARING

Watson acknowledges a phenomenological,

existential, and spiritual orientation from the sciences
and humanities.

She emphasized on the interpersonal and

transpersonal qualities of congruence, empathy, and
warmth.
 TRANSPERSONAL CARING

Her main concept includes the 10 Carative Factors

expanded to clinical caritas processes.

Her theory is “a special kind of Human Care

relationship – a union with another person- high
regard for the whole person and their being-in-the-
world”
 TRANSPERSONAL CARING

The development and maintenance of this

transpersonal relationship is actualized through
the application of the 10 caritas processes that
guide the relationship and the set foundation for
the caring-loving relationship essential to
nursing practice.
 METAPARADIGMS

-HEALTH
-PERSON
-ENVIRONMENT
-NURSING
 HEALTH

Originally it is defined as “ the

positive state of physical, mental, and
social well being with the inclusion of
the three elements.”
 HEALTH

(1) A high level of overall physical,

mental, and social functioning.(2) a
general adaptive-maintenance level of
daily function.(3) absence of illness.
 HEALTH

“ Unity and harmony within mind,

body and soul” because “illness is not
necessarily disease instead it is a
disharmony within person’s inner self
or soul.
 PERSON

A person has “ a unity of mind, body,

spiritual and nature “ and “ personhood
is tied to notions that one’s soul
possesses a body that is not confined by
objective time and space”
 ENVIRONMENT

“ When the nurse enters the patient’s

room, a magnetic field of expectation
is created.”
 NURSING

“ Develop a caring, transcendental

relationship”
WATSON’S TEN CARATIVE FACTORS
REDEFINED AS CARITAS PROCESSES

1. Cultivating the practice of loving-

kindness and equanimity towards self and
other as foundational to caritas
consciousness
2. Being authentically present: Enabling,
sustaining, and honoring the faith, hope, and
deep belief system and the inner-subjective
world of self/other.
3. Cultivation of one’s own spiritual
practices and transpersonal self, going
beyond ego-self.
4. Development and sustaining a helping-
trust caring relationship.
5. Being present to, and supportive of, the
expression of positive and negative
feelings.
6. Creative use of self and all ways of
knowing as parts of caring process; Engage in
the artistry of caritas nursing
7. Engage in genuine teaching-learning
experience that attends to unity of being and
subjective meaning- attempting to stay within the
other’s frame of reference.
8. Creating a healing environment at all
levels
9. Administering sacred nursing acts of
caring-healing by tending to basic human
needs.
10. Opening and Attending to
spiritual/mysterious and existential
unknowns of life-death.
THE IMPACTS OF THEORY OF
HUMAN CARING
Self Actualization
FOR THE NURSE
Ignites synergy with the
Metaparadigm:
Nurse, Patient, Health and
Environment
Advances Nursing
as a Profession
Thank You!
BE A NURSE