The Roy Adaptation Model

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Term Paper Title	The Roy Adaptation Model
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The Roy Adaptation Model

The Roy Adaptation Model

        Roy began work on her theory in the 1960s. She drew from existing work
of a physiological psychologist, and behavioral, systems and role theorists. She
was keenly interested in the psycho/social aspects of the person from the start
and concentrated her education on this aspect of Person. Thus, the
language/thinking of psychology and sociology became second nature to her. The
need for intense study of the language and ideas behind Roy's Adaptation Model
is its biggest drawback in applying it to many clinical areas. The confusion in
the physiological mode's categories could be explained by her concentrating on
the psych social during her education.
     In 1980, Roy and Reihl advocated a single unified model of nursing and
suggested this would insure stability of the discipline of nursing. They
maintained concepts and propositions of other models could be combined in
summary statements related to person, goals of nursing and the nursing process.
According to Fawcett, this position is a simplistic solution to a difficult
problem. Nursing, with its limited experience with metaparadigms and conceptual
models, is not ready for restrictions on its ways of thinking. It's my belief
that this act of advocating a single unified model was an act of multi-oppressed
thinking influenced by men, the Roman Catholic Church and the medical world.
     During a 1987 conference of nursing theorists, Sister Roy made a number
of deferring remarks to a speech made earlier by a male Bishop.
     Fawcett also says the Roy Adaptation Model has an extensive vocabulary
and that some familiar words (ie adaption) have been given new meanings in Roy's
attempt to translate mechanistic ideas into organismic ones.

Oppressed Group Behaviour:

-assimilating the values and characteristics of the Oppressors. -Nursing leaders
represent an elite group promoted because of their allegiance to maintaining the
status quo. -leaders of Oppressed Groups are controlling, coercive and rigid.

Oppressors:

-education is important to maintaining the status quo. -Roy's Model follows the
Medical Model and tends to be Totalitarian and therefore is familiar to Medicine
- they would want to encourage it. -behaviour preferred by Oppressors is
rewarded. -token appeasement (approval) is given to halt change or revolt.

     The contributions of this conceptual model are that it will lead to more
systematic assessments of clients and an increased quality of nursing pract...

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