CREDENTIALS AND BACKGROUND OF THE THEORIST

Margaret Jean Harman Watson was born in southern West Virginia and grew up during the 1940s and 1950s in the small town of Welch West Virginia in the !ppalachian Mountains" !s the #oungest of eight children she was surrounded b# an e$tended famil#%communit# en&ironment"
're&ious authors( )race# J" *" 'atton +eborah !" ,arnhart 'atricia M" ,ennett ,e&erl# +" 'orter and -ebecca ." .loan" /n addition -uth 0eil updated the chapter in 1990" )he authors wish to than1 +r" Jean Watson for her ongoing inspiration and support along with her re&iew of the content of this chapter for accurac# and her assistance in updating the references and bibliograph#"

-oano1e Virginia" !fter graduation in 1941 she married her husband +ouglas and mo&ed west to

his nati&e state of 5olorado" +ouglas whom Watson describes not onl# as her ph#sical and spiritual partner but also as her best friend died in 1996" .he has two grown daughters Jennifer 7born in 19489 and Julie 7born in 194:9 and fi&e grandchildren" .he continues to li&e in ,oulder 5olorado" !fter mo&ing to 5olorado Watson continued her nursing education and graduate studies at the ;ni&ersit# of 5olorado" .he earned a baccalaureate degree in nursing in 1944 at the ,oulder campus a master<s degree in ps#chiatric-mental health nursing in 1944 at the Health .ciences campus and a

Watson attended high school in West Virginia and then the 2ewis 3ale .chool of 0ursing in

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