@article{ref1,
title="Coming to know ourselves as community through a nursing partnership with adolescents convicted of murder",
journal="ANS: advances in nursing science",
year="2002",
author="Pharris, Margaret Dexheimer",
volume="24",
number="3",
pages="21-42",
abstract="This research applies Newman's hermeneutic-dialectic method of pattern recognition to the lives of 12 adolescent males convicted of murder who were invited to be co-investigators in the process of understanding patterns of meaningful relationships and experiences in their lives. Comparison of the 12 life patterns revealed a strikingly similar experience of interactions with the community and yielded insight into community pattern. The process of pattern recognition was found to be transformative. This article proposes a unitary-transformative process of community pattern recognition for nurses and communities interested in understanding complex community dynamics and engaging in healthy transformations.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0161-9268",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}