self-concept

Nursing Diagnoses

- Disturbed Body Image - Parental Role Conflict - Disturbed Personal Identity - Ineffective Role Performance - Chronic Low Self-Esteem - Situational Low Self-Esteem - Disturbed Personal Identity - Anxiety - Social Isolation - Hopelessness - Powerlessness

TRUE

The level of self-esteem is dependent upon the self-perception of adequate role performance in these various social roles

Self-concept

affects the ability to function and greatly influences health status.

Self-concept

is an individual's perception of self and is what helps make each individual unique.

Evaluation

A client's behavior and attitudes will reflect the degree of progress toward restoring an altered self-concept. The nurse must reconsider the alignment of the client's targeted self-concept with the plan of care to assess if the two are still congruent. Because self-concept is based on personal attitudes and feelings, it often requires months or even years to change.

IDENTITY

A sense of personal identity is what sets one person apart as a unique individual; includes a person's name, gender, ethnic identity, family status, occupation, and roles.

TRUE

Assess the client's strengths to be used as a foundation on which to build therapeutic interventions. • Maintain appropriate relationships • Care for self in order to meet basic needs • Adapt to stressors in a positive manner

Assessment

Consider both the client's developmental level and chronological age when assessing self-concept. Determine the client's perception of self concept and the factors affecting it.

Components of Self-Concept

Identity, Body image, Self-esteem, and Role performance

Implementation

Initiate Therapeutic Interaction; Support Healthy Defense Mechanisms; Ensure Satisfaction of Needs (Physical needs and Psychosocial needs), Promote positive self-esteem across the life span, Childhood, Adolescence, and Adulthood

TRUE

One's personal identity begins to develop during childhood and is constantly reinforced and modified throughout life.

Outcome Identification and Planning

Outcome statements reflect specific behavior that is measurable and that has an appropriate time frame for evaluation. The nurse and client develop mutually established objectives. This encourages the client to assume an active role in recovery.

TRUE

Positive and negative self-assessments in the physical, emotional, intellectual,and functional dimensions change over time

Stressors Affecting Role Performance

Role overload and Role conflict

Adulthood

The adult's perception of self continues to develop and change as an individual progresses through the adult years. Periods of relative stability may be interspersed with realizations of physical changes, as well as changes in roles and responsibilities

Adolescence

The numerous changes in physical, emotional, and psychosocial status during the adolescent years bring about rapid and often continuous changes in self-concept.

Impaired self-concept

Whenever a person is unable to fulfill role responsibilities

Self-concept

evolves throughout life and depends to an extent on an individual's developmental level.

BODY IMAGE

is an attitude about one's physical attributes and characteristics, appearance, and performance; dynamic because any change in body structure or function, including the normal changes of growth and development, can affect it.

Childhood

is shaped by interactions with parents and siblings, through shared experiences with extended family members, and relationships with others. Their sense of self changes as they move through each developmental stage.

SELF- ESTEEM

is the judgment of personal performance compared with the self ideal; derived from a sense of giving and receiving love, and being respected by others

SELF- IDEAL

is the perception of behavior based on personal standards and self expectations; serves as an internal regulator to support self-respect and self-esteem.

ROLE

refers to a set of expected behaviors determined by familial, cultural and social norms.