Dorothy Johnson

ENVIRONMENT

An individual's behavior is influenced by allevents in the environment.

BEHAVIORAL SYSTEM MODEL

Dorothy Johnson

Johnson believes that each individual has a focusing and repeating ways of acting which covers a behavioral system distinct to that individual.

Dorothy Johnson

NURSING

Primary goal of ___ is to cultivate equilibrium within the individual, which allows for nursing practice at anypoint in the health-illness continuum.

1. Attachment/affiliative 2. Dependency 3. Ingestive 4. Eliminative 5. Sexual 6. Aggressiveness 7. Achievement

She identifies seven subsystem within the Behavioral System Model.

HEALTH

is an elusive state that is affected by social, psychological, biological and physiological factors. The behavioral model supports the idea that the individual is striving to retain some balance or equilibrium.

PERSON

views a _____ as having two major systems: Biological and Behavioral. Role of medicine to focus on the biological, whereas nursing focus on the behavioral.

Dependency

•Actions that triggers nurturing behaviors from other individuals in the environment.

Attachment/affiliative

•Allows social inclusion, closeness and the pattern and continuance of a strong public bond.

Ingestive

•Behavior surrounding ingestion of food may relate to more to what is socially satisfactory in a specified culture.

Aggressive

•Behaviors concerned with defense and self-preservation, whose purpose is to protect and conserve self and society.

Achievement

•Contains behaviors that attempt to control the environment (Intellectual, physical, imaginative, mechanical and communal skills)

Sexual

•Imitates behavior related to procreation or reproduct

Eliminative

•Relate to behaviors surrounding the secretion of waste products from the body with socially adequate behaviors for the time and place.