Helping Behavior
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Trust, power, and vulnerability: a discourse on helping in nursing.

29 Nov 2009 This article uses philosophical inquiry to present the relationship between the helping role in nursing and the concept of trust essential to it. It characterizes helping as the moral center of the nurse-patient relationship and discusses how ... Read more...

Cooperative breeding in South American hunter-gatherers.

17 Aug 2009 Evolutionary researchers have recently suggested that pre-modern human societies habitually practised cooperative breeding and that this feature helps explain human prosocial tendencies. Despite circumstantial evidence that post-reproductive females ... Read more...

Social capital and perceived health in Japan: an ecological and multilevel analysis.

30 Jun 2009 Numerous empirical studies, largely conducted in Western societies, have linked social capital to health outcomes. However, few studies thus far have been conducted in northeastern Asian countries, particularly Japan. Therefore, whether social ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Helping Behavior'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Trust, power, and vulnerability: a discourse on helping in nursing. 29 Nov 2009
• Re-reviewing peer review. 23 Aug 2009
• Cooperative breeding in South American hunter-gatherers. 17 Aug 2009
• Social capital and perceived health in Japan: an ecological and multilevel analysis. 30 Jun 2009
• Research on social capital and health in Japan. A commentary on Ichida and on Fujisawa. 30 Jun 2009
• Cultivating healing relationships. 29 Jun 2009
• Gently encouraging breastfeeding in the NICU. 29 Jun 2009
• Mentoring. A quality assurance tool for dentists. Part 4: some tools for mentoring and coaching. The mentoring encounter. 29 Jun 2009
• [Helping spinal cord injured patients discover new body sensations] 29 Jun 2009
• [Borderline personality disorder and counter-transference] 29 Jun 2009
• Do gender differences in help avoidance vary by ethnicity? An examination of African American and European American students during early adolescence. 29 Jun 2009
• What constitutes good academic advising? Nursing students' perceptions of academic advising. 29 Jun 2009
• It's good to be good: science says it's so. Research demonstrates that people who help others usually have healthier, happier lives. 29 Jun 2009
• Alcohol poisoning among college students turning 21: do they recognize the symptoms and how do they help? 29 Jun 2009
• Stop and listen: a reflection. 30 May 2009
• How to foster staff generosity; discipline for rude behavior. 30 May 2009
• [A nursing experience in a disclosure consultation] 30 May 2009
• Development of the Ways Of Helping Questionnaire: a measure of preferred coping strategies for older African American cancer survivors. 30 May 2009
• Clinical instruction: using the strengths-based approach with nursing students. 26 May 2009
• The roots and branches of human altruism. 20 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Helping Behavior'

Definition: Behaviors associated with the giving of assistance or aid to individuals.

Descriptor UI: D006379

Alternative terms: Helping Behavior; Behavior, Helping; Behaviors, Helping; Helping Behaviors;

Tree Number: F01.145.813.225;

History Note: 79(75); was see under SOCIAL BEHAVIOR 1975-78

Technical Notes: no qualif