Empowerment and Self Advocacy
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A contextual-behavioral model of empowerment: case studies involving people with physical disabilities.
When people with disabilities, ethnic minorities, older adults, women, and others lack power, they usually experience adverse conditions disproportionate to other members of society. Empowerment--the process by which people gain some control over valued events, outcomes, and resources--is an important construct for understanding and improving the lives of people of marginal status. This manuscr...
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متن کاملPublic health nurses used 4 strategies to facilitate client empowerment.
Methods Nurses participated in a series of 3 two hour focus groups (5–9 participants per group; 71% participated in all 3 groups). Research questions were addressed using the nominal group technique. The researcher took field notes during the focus groups. Nurses identified clients whom they thought were empowered through their practice, and consenting clients were interviewed for about 1 hour ...
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تاریخ انتشار 2009