Katie Eriksson
Katie Eriksson
Katie Eriksson
T H E O R Y O F C A R I TAT I V E
CARING
Stella Maris P. Lope
Teacher Motivator
Nordic Pioneer
Researcher
KATIE ERIKSSON
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
• The human being is fundamentally holy. Human dignity means accepting the human obligation of
serving with love, of existing for the sake of others.
• Communion is the basis for all humanity. Human beings are fundamentally interrelated to an
abstract and/or concrete other in a communion.
• Suffering is an inseparable part of life. Suffering and health are each other ’s prerequisites.
• Health is more than the absence of illness. Health implies wholeness and holiness.
• The human being lives in a reality that is characterized by mystery, infinity, and eternity.
MAJOR ASSUMPTIONS
Theses - fundamental statements concerning the general nature of caring science, and their
validity is tested through basic research.
• Caring communion forms the context of meaning of caring and derives its origin from the ethos
of love, responsibility, and sacrifice, namely, caritative ethics.
• Health means a movement in becoming, being, and doing while striving for wholeness and
holiness, which is compatible with endurable suffering.
• Caring implies alleviation of suffering in charity, love, faith, and hope. Natural basic caring is
expressed through tending, playing, and learning in a sustained caring relationship, which is
asymmetrical by nature.
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THE METAPARADIGM:
IN THE MIND OF KATIE ERIKSSON
PERSON
- IN TERMS OF ERIKSSON'S THEORY, THE PATIENT IS A SUFFERING HUMAN BEING OR A
HUMAN BEING WHO SUFFERS AND PATIENTLY ENDURES.
- IS BASED ON THE AXIOM THAT THE HUMAN BEING IS AN ENTITY OF BODY, SOUL, AND
SPIRIT.
- THE HUMAN BEING IS FUNDAMENTALLY HOLY, AND THIS AXIOM IS RELATED TO THE IDEA
OF HUMAN DIGNITY WHICH MEANS ACCEPTING THE HUMAN OBLIGATION OF SERVING WITH
LOVE AND EXISTING FOR THE SAKE OF OTHERS.
HEALTH
Eriksson defines health as soundness, freshness, and well-being.
3 DIMENSIONS
Doing
Being
Becoming
ENVIRONMENT
3 Forms that contains suffering:
Related to Illness
Related to Care
Related to Life
NURSING
• Caring nursing represents a kind of caring without prejudice that emphasizes the patient and his
or her suffering and desires
• Caritative Care Ethics makes a basic distinction between caring and nursing ethics
True care therefore is “not a form of behavior, not a feeling or state. It is to be there—it is the way,
the spirit in which it is done, and this spirit is caritative”
“Caritative caring means that we take “caritas” into use
when caring for the human being in health and
suffering …. Caritative caring is a manifestation of the
love that ‘just exists’…Caring communion, true caring,
occurs when the one caring in a spirit of caritas
alleviates the suffering of the patient” - Katie Eriksson
THE END