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Client Variables
The client variables can be one or combination of the following: physiological ,sociocultural, psychological, spiritual & developmental.
Client Variables
These variables function to achieve stability in relation to the environmental stressors experienced by the client.
Lines of Resistance
Represent the internal factors of a person that help defend against a stressor (e.g. body’s immune response system).
Lines of Resistance
It acts to facilitate coping to overcome the stressors that are present with in the individual.
Normal Line of Defense
Represents a stability state for the individual or system.
Normal Line of Defense
It is maintained overtime & serves as a standard to assess deviations from the client’s usual wellness.
Normal Line of Defense
It includes system variables & behaviors such as the individual’s usual coping patterns, lifestyles, & developmental stage.
Flexible Line of Defense
Acts as a protective barrier to prevent stressors from breaking through the normal line of defense.
Flexible Line of Defense
Is dynamic and can change rapidly over a short time.
Flexible Line of Defense
Can be affected by variables such as loss of sleep, that reduce a client’s ability to use a flexible line of defense against stressors.
Stressors
Are forces that produce tensions, alterations or a potential problem causing instability within the client’s system.
Intrapersonal Stressors
Are those stimuli that occur within the individual (e.g. emotions and feelings).
Interpersonal Stressors
Are those stimuli that occur between individuals (e.g. pressures related to role expectation).
Extrapersonal Stressors
Are those stimuli that occur outside the person(e.g. job or financial pressures).
Reaction
Are the outcomes or produced results of certain stressors & actions of the lines of resistance of a client.
Reaction
Can be positive or negative depending on the degree of reaction the client produces to adjust & adapt with the situation.
Negentropy
Is set towards stability or wellness.
Egentropy
Is set towards disorganization of the system producing illness.
Degree of Reaction
Is the amount of energy required for the client to adjust to the stressors.
Prevention
Interventions are purposeful actions to help the client retain, attain & or maintain system stability.
Prevention
Used to attain balance within the continuum of health.
Prevention
These are the actions that generate good results or a re aimed towards hindering negative outcomes.
Primary Prevention
Refers to intervention before a reaction occurs (Levels of Prevention)
Primary Prevention
Is carried out when a stress or is suspected or identified (Levels of Prevention)
Primary Prevention
It also aims to strengthen the capacity of a person to maintain an optimum level of functioning while being interactive with the environment, like health promotion & disease prevention (Levels of Prevention)
Secondary Prevention
Refers to intervention after are action occurs (Levels of Prevention)
Secondary Prevention
Focuses on helping alleviate the actual existing effects of an action that altered that balance of health of a person (Levels of Prevention)
Secondary Prevention
It aims to reduce environmental influences that lead to the decline of the level of functioning of a person & strengthening or restoring a person’s resistance after the illness exposure (Levels of Prevention)
Tertiary Prevention
Refers to intervention that occurs after the system has been treated through secondary (Levels of Prevention)
Tertiary Prevention
Focuses on actual treatments or adjustments to facilitate the strengthening of a person after being exposed to a certain or illness (Levels of Prevention)
Tertiary Prevention
It aims to prevent the reoccurrence of the illness in the manner of rehabilitation, as in the case of disability avoidance & physical therapy (Levels of Prevention)
Reconstitution
Is the adjustment state from the degree of reaction.
Reconstitution
It is a state of going back to the actual state of health before the illness occurred.