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Helen C. Erickson Evelyn M. Tomlin Mary Ann P. Swain
1937 to present 1929 to present 1941 to present

Modeling and Role-Modeling

Margaret E. Erickson

“Unconditional acceptance of the person as a human in the process of Being and Becoming
is basic to the Modeling and Role-Modeling paradigm. It is a prerequisite to facilitating
holistic growth . . . Unconditional acceptance of the person as a human being who has an
inherent need for dignity and respect from others, and for connectedness—that kind of
Unconditional Acceptance is based on Unconditional Love”
(Erickson, 2006, p. 343).

Credentials and Background began in the emergency room of the Midland Com-
of the Theorists munity Hospital in Midland, Texas, where she was
Head Nurse; she then worked as Night Supervisor at
Helen C. Erickson the Michigan State Home for the Mentally Impaired
Helen C. Erickson received a diploma in 1957 from and Handicapped in Mount Pleasant. In 1960, she
Saginaw General Hospital in Saginaw, Michigan. Her moved to Puerto Rico with her husband and was
degrees include a baccalaureate in nursing in 1974, Director of Health Services at Inter-American Uni-
dual master’s degrees in psychiatric nursing and versity in San German, Puerto Rico, until 1964. On
medical-surgical nursing in 1976, and a doctor of return to the United States, she was a staff nurse at
educational psychology in 1984, all from the Univer- St. Joseph’s and University Hospitals in Ann Arbor,
sity of Michigan. Erickson’s professional experience Michigan. Erickson later was a mental health nurse

Previous authors: Margaret E. Erickson, Jane A. Caldwell-Gwin, Lisa A. Carr, Brenda Kay Harmon, Karen Hartman, Connie Rae
Jarlsberg, Judy McCormick, and Kathryn W. Noone.
The authors express appreciation to Helen C. Erickson, Evelyn M. Tomlin, and Mary Ann P. Swain for critiquing earlier editions of
this chapter.

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