Abstract
D.Cur.
Movement is an integral aspect of daily living. Movement allows the human
being to express, find meaning and reflect a part or the whole of the unfolding
of the stories of their lives. In nursing movement is the dialogue and
interaction between professional nurse and patient. The essence of the
dialogue is the movement towards caring and healing between the
professional nurse and the individual.
The purpose of this research is to develop, describe, evaluate and provide
guidelines for the operationalisation of a model as a framework of reference
for nursing to facilitate the individual faced with mental health challenges as
an integral part of wholeness.
The research objectives are:
•To elicit the experience of belly dancers within the belly dancing
environment.
•To elicit the experience of belly dance teachers within the belly dancing
environment.
•To describe a model to facilitate mental health as an integral part of
wholeness of the individuals faced with mental health challenges.
•To evaluate the model to promote the facilitation of mental health as integral
part of wholeness of the individuals faced with mental health challenges.
•To describe the guidelines for operationalising the model for facilitation of
mental health as an integral part of wholeness.
A research design consisted of theory-generative, qualitative, exploratory,
descriptive and contextual in nature. The purposive sample consisted of eight
individuals participating in belly dancing.