DST 614 Lecture 15: Self-Concept

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Disability Studies
• Course: DST 614
• Professor: de

Document Summary

Chapter 9: self concept in professional interpersonal relationships. Stable, nurturing environments foster the development of positive self-concept, while adverse life events contribute to the development of negative self-concept. They can help clients revisit personal strengths, consider new possibilities, incorporate new information, and seek out appropriate resources as a basis for making good clinical decisions and taking constructive actions. Gender is socially constructed and enacted roles and behaviors that occur in a historical and cultural context, and that vary across societies and over time. Self-concept clarity is the extent to which the contents of one"s self-beliefs are clearly and confidently defined, internally consistent, and temporally stable. The 5 nursing diagnoses related to self-concept and self-esteem are body image disturbance (physical), personal. Identity disturbance (cognitive and perpetual awareness), altered role performance (functional capacity and self- efficacy), self-esteem disturbance (emotional valuing), and spiritual distress (connectivity with a higher purpose or. Body image: the meaning of body image differs from person to person.