Understanding and Combating Helplessness
Understanding and Combating Helplessness is a scholarly work, published in 1993 in ''Rehabilitation Nursing''. The main subjects of the publication include learned helplessness, psychotherapy, psychological intervention, psychology, affect, developmental psychology, control in organization management, outcome, therapeutic alliance, clinical psychology, and emotional self-regulation. The article examines the concept of helplessness to help nurses differentiate between the dependent, passive behaviors that are motivated by a need for attention and are within the patient's control and the dependent behaviors of learned helplessness.