The Roy Adaptation Model
Essay title: The Roy Adaptation Model
The Roy Adaptation Model
ASSUMPTIONS
Scientific
Systems of matter and energy progress to higher levels of complex self-organization
Consciousness and meaning are constitutive of person and environment integration
Awareness of self and environment is rooted in thinking and feeling
Humans by their decisions are accountable for the integration of creative processes
Thinking and feeling mediate human action
System relationships include acceptance, protection, and fostering of interdependence
Persons and the earth have common patterns and integral relationships
Persons and environment transformations are crated in human consciousness
Integration of human and environment meanings results in adaptation
Philosophical
Persons have mutual relationships with the world and God
Human meaning is rooted in an omega point convergence of the universe
God is intimately revealed in the diversity of creation and is the common destiny of creation
Persons use human creative abilities of awareness, enlightenment, and faith
Persons are accountable for the processes of deriving, sustaining, and transforming the universe
PERSONS AND RELATING PERSONS
An adaptive system with coping processes
Described as a whole comprised of parts
Functions as a unity for some purpose
Includes people as individuals or in groups (families, organizations, communities, nations, and society as a whole)
An adaptive system with cognator and regulator subsystems acting to maintain adaptation in the four adaptive modes: physiologic-physical, self-concept-group identity, role function, and interdependence
Adaptive Modes
Individual
Group
Physiologic-physical
Five needs – oxygenation, nutrition, elimination, activity and rest, protection
Four complex processes-senses; fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balance; neurologic function; endocrine function
Operating resources: participants, capacities, physical facilities, and fiscal resources
Self-concept-group identity
Need is psychic and spiritual integrity so that one can be or exist with a sense of unity, meaning, and purposefulness in the universe
Need is group identity integrity through shared relations, goals, values, and coresponsibility for goal achievement; implies honest, soundness, and completeness of identifications with the group
Role function
Need is social integrity; knowing who one is in relation to others so one can acct; role set is the complex of positions individual holds; involves role development, instrumental and expressive behaviors, and role taking process
Need is role clarity, understanding and committing to fulfill expected tasks so group can achieve common goals; process of integrating roles in managing different roles and their expectations; complementary roles are regulated
Interdependence
Need is to achieve relational integrity using process of affectional adequacy, i.e., the giving and receiving of love, respect, and value through effective relations and communication
Need is to achieve relational integrity using processes of developmental and resource adequacy, i.e., learning and maturing in relationships and achieving needs for food, shelter, health, and security through independence with others
ENVIRONMENT
All conditions, circumstances, and influences surrounding and affecting the development and behavior of persons and groups with particular consideration of mutuality of person and earth resources
Three kinds of stimuli: focal, contextual, and residual
Significant stimuli in all human adaptation include stage of development, family, and culture
HEALTH