Jean Watson (Transpersonal Caring Relationship)
Watson’s main concepts include the 10 Carative Factors expanded into Caritas and offered a
translation of the original carative factors into clinical caritas processes that suggested open ways
that could be considered.
Ten Carative Factors
1. Humanistic – Altruistic Values.
2. Instilling faith and hope.
3. Cultivation of sensitivity to one’s self and
other.
4. Development of helping-trusting, human
caring relationship.
5. Promotion and acceptance of expression of
positive and negative feelings.
6. Systematic use of scientific (creative)
problem solving processes.
7. Promotion of transpersonal teaching-
learning.
8. Provision for supportive, protective, and/or
corrective mental, social, spiritual
environment.
9. Assistance with gratification of human
needs.
10. Allowance for existential-
phenomenological dimensions.
Sources:
http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-07072007000100016
https://bwhheartandscience.org/2016/03/04/the-caritas-processes-as-a-guide-toward-caring-
intentions/
Caritas Processes
1. Practice loving-kindness, compassion and
equanimity toward self and others.
2. Being authentically present: Enabling faith,
hope, belief system; Honoring subjective
inner life-world of self and others.
3. Cultivating of one’s own spiritual practices;
deepening self-awareness; going beyond the
ego-self.
4. Developing and sustaining a
helping/trusting authentic caring relationship
5. Being present to, and supportive of, the
expression of positive and negative feelings
6. Creatively using presence of self and all
ways of knowing/multiple ways of
being/doing as part of the caring process;
engaging in artistry of caring-healing
practices.
7. Engaging in genuine teaching-learning
experiences that attend to whole person, their
meaning; attempting to stay within other’s
frame of reference.
8. Creative healing environment at all levels;
physical, non-physical, subtle environment of
energy and consciousness whereby
wholeness, beauty, comfort, dignity and peace
are potentiated.
9. Assisting with basic needs, with
intentional, caring consciousness of touching
and working with embodied spirit of
individual, honoring unity of being; allowing
for spiritual emergence.
10. Opening and attending to
spiritual/mysterious, unknown existential
dimensions of life-death.