Nursing 1070A/B Lecture 9: week 9
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Self awareness includes: understanding our self-concept, understanding our self-esteem, sense of body-image, appreciation of gender/sexuality. It is continuously changing: understanding biases, reflection, introspection, mindfulness, ability to reflect in the moment (reflection in action, reflection on action, serves as a guidepost. Self-esteem: don"t take things as personall(cid:455, happier with yourself, generally happier in general, they feel good about themselves, cope more effectively with challenges, able to cope with negativity, think they are valued and respected, more successful. Schools are integrating an action plan to improve children"s positive self-esteem. Based on belief that promotion of positive self esteem in children may lead to: reductions in teenaged pregnancies, reductions in drug and alcohol abuse, reductions in violence and crime. Where your self-esteem is directly related to your environment. Mead based on feedback of significant others. Coopersmith and rosenburg thinking about how other people view you. Luhtanen and crocker self-esteem is dependent on your social groups, and family.