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• The Caritas Nurse works from the other’s point of view and sub-
jective human frame of reference, not exclusively from a medi-
cal, professional, clinical view of expectations.
• The practice of Caritas Nursing includes problem solving with
the other to help him or her find alternative ways to see the situ-
ation, meet expectations, and seek opportunities for personal
meaning, recognition, and satisfaction.
• The Caritas Nurse holds the person in his or her wholeness, even
when previous expectations and successes need to be altered; the
nurse never underestimates the person’s inner motivation and
potential for achievement.
• This need for achievement is affected by and affects all the other
basic needs in a complex, energetic, dynamic way, so the inter-
active nature of needs must be considered in an overall plan of
caring.
• The other Carative Factors/Caritas Processes operating with
this specific need include numbers 2: hope and faith; 3: nur-
turing individual spiritual practices/beliefs; 4: helping-trusting
caring relationship; 6: creative problem solving; and 7:
teaching-learning-coaching.

Human need for affiliation:
Belonging, family, soCial relations, Culture
The Deepest need . . . is [the] need to overcome . . . separateness
And leave the prison of aloneness.
eric fromm

Of all the basic human needs, the affiliation need comes closest to
revealing the core of our humanity and humanness. A basic assump-
tion is that people need people; this is a universal need and the basis for
thriving as a human. The function of this need is Belonging. The matu-
ration experiences are related to balancing dependence with indepen-
dence, privacy with intimacy, separateness with connectedness, and
individuation within the collective family of humanity.
Within the ancient energetic body system, this need can be located
energetically between belonging to the whole of humanity and devel-

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