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c h a P t e r S e v e n

From Carative FaCtor 4: Developing a
Helping-Trusting Relationship
to Caritas ProCess 4: Developing and Sustaining
a Helping-Trusting Caring Relationship

A person becomes a person in the encounter with other persons
and in no other way.
Source unknown
The central task of health professions education—in nursing,
medicine, dentistry, public health, psychology, social work, and the
allied health professions—must be to help students, faculty, and
practitioners learn how to form caring, healing relationships with
patients, their communities and with each other, and with them-
selves . . . the knowledge, skills, and values necessary for effec-
tive relationships. . . . Developing practitioners, able to mature as
reflective learners and professionals who understand the patient
as a person . . . [also] understand the essential nature of healing
relationships.
Pew Fetzer rePort (1994:39)

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