Joanne M. Hall                             38 THE THEORY OF BECOMING RESOLUTE: GUIDING MENTAL HEALTH PRACTICE WITH SURVIVORS OF MALTREATMENT                 What is your story? How would you like it to unfold? Mental health…

Janice M. Morse                             34 THEORETICAL COALESCENCE                 We are proposing a theory of theories that sees theory as a conceptual system invented to some purpose—when seen in its full consequences—has revolutionary…

Janice M. Morse                                 6 THE BATTLEFIELD OF KNOWLEDGE: DIFFERENT PURPOSES, DIFFERENT APPROACHES                 “It’s a bird.” “It’s a plane.” “It’s Superman!” —Maxwell and Duchovny (1939) As our perception of something changes,…

Janice M. Morse                             11 CONCEPT EVALUATION: DETERMINING APPROPRIATE STRATEGIES FOR CONCEPT DEVELOPMENT1 Trust, but verify. —Ronald Reagan Concepts do not dichotomously simply exist or not exist. Rather, scientific concepts are…

Janice M. Morse                                 2 WHERE WE CAME FROM                 I have a confession—and an apology—to make. Once, in 1982, the director of nursing at a Canadian hospital decided to implement a…

Judith A. Spiers                             10 THE PINK ELEPHANT PARADOX (OR, AVOIDING THE MISATTRIBUTION OF DATA)1                 One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in…