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Transitions described by an adult woman: subsidies from the human adaptation model of Schlossberg

The case study of a forty two years old woman expressed the transition and crisis experienced by an adult woman. The speech content is presented in this article according to the human adaptation model of SCHLOSSBERG and attempting to acquire informations about crisis and transitions. The authors assumed a position of non-normative interviewers applying a psychological model in nursing and used the content analysis technic. They verified that the adult woman crises were solved using her own personal resources.

adult woman; non-normative; transition


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