Levine Flashcards
An ongoing process of change in which patient maintains his integrity within the realities of environment
Achieved through the “frugal, economic, contained and controlled use of environmental resources by individual in his or her best interest”
Adaptation
Exist when the interaction or constant adaptations to the environment permits the assurance of integrity
Promoted by use of conservation principle
Wholeness
The product of adaptation
“Keeping together “of the life systems or the wholeness of the individual
Achieving a balance of energy supply and demand that is with in the unique biological realities of the individual
Conservation
A holistic being who constantly strives to preserve wholeness and integrity
A unique individual in unity and integrity, feeling, believing, thinking and whole system of system
Person
o A state of energy sparing that also provide the necessary baselines for a multitude of synchronized physiological and psychological factors
Homeostasis
o Describe the pattern of adaptation, which permit the individual’s body to sustain its well being with the vast changes which encroach upon it from the environment
• A stabilized flow rather than a static state
Homeorrhesis
o Aspect of the world that individual are able to intercept
Preconceptual
o Elements that may physically affects individuals but not perceived by hem: radiation, micro-organism and pollution
Operational
o Part of person’s environment including cultural patterns characterized by spiritual existence, ideas, values, beliefs and tradition
Conceptual
Adaptations are grounded in history and await the challenges to which they respond
Historicity
Individual responses and their adaptive pattern varies on the base of specific genetic structure
Specificity
Safe and fail options available to the individual to ensure continued adaptation
Redundancy
A change in behavior of an individual during an attempt to adapt to the environment
Help individual to protect and maintain their integrity
Organismic response
An instantaneous response to real or imagined threat, most primitive response
Flight or fight
response intended to provide for structural integrity and the promotion of healing
Inflammatory