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    Dorothy Johnson developed the Behavioral Systems Model in 1968, which views the patient as having seven interconnected subsystems that must be in balance for optimal health. The model aims to assist patients in maintaining behavior proportional to demands, modifying behavior to support biological needs, and benefiting from medical care without undue trauma. It influences nursing practice, education, research, and differentiates nursing from other fields.

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    Dorothy Johnson developed the Behavioral Systems Model in 1968, which views the patient as having seven interconnected subsystems that must be in balance for optimal health. The model aims to assist patients in maintaining behavior proportional to demands, modifying behavior to support biological needs, and benefiting from medical care without undue trauma. It influences nursing practice, education, research, and differentiates nursing from other fields.

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    Dorothy Johnson developed the Behavioral Systems Model in 1968, which views the patient as having seven interconnected subsystems that must be in balance for optimal health. The model aims to assist patients in maintaining behavior proportional to demands, modifying behavior to support biological needs, and benefiting from medical care without undue trauma. It influences nursing practice, education, research, and differentiates nursing from other fields.

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    DOROTHY JOHNSON:

    BEHAVIORAL SYSTEMS
    MODEL
    DOROTHY E.
    JOHNSON
    (AUGUST 21, 1919
    – FEBRUARY 1999)
    • She was one of the
    greatest nursing theorists
    who developed the
    “Behavioral System
    Model”, which was first
    proposed in 1968.
    JOHNSON’S BEHAVIORAL
    SYSTEM MODEL
     Her model was greatly influenced by Florence Nightingale’s
    book, Notes on Nursing.
     It advocates the development of effective behavioral
    functioning in the patient to prevent illness and stresses the
    importance of research-based knowledge about the effect of
    nursing care on patients.
    GOALS
    (1) To assist the patient whose behavior is proportional to social
    demands.
    (2) To assist the patient who is able to modify his behavior in
    ways that it supports biological imperatives.
    (3) To assist the patient who is able to benefit to the fullest extent
    during illness from the physician’s knowledge and skill.
    (4) To assist the patient whose behavior does not give evidence
    of unnecessary trauma as a consequence of illness.
    ASSUMPTIONS OF THE
    BEHAVIORAL SYSTEM MODEL
     The assumptions made by Dorothy Johnson’s theory are in
    three categories:
    • assumptions about system
    • assumptions about structure
    • assumptions about functions
    THREE FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS
    FOR THE SUBSYSTEMS:
    (1) The system must be protected from toxic influences
    with which the system cannot cope.
    (2) Each system has to be nurtured through the input of
    appropriate supplies from the environment.
    (3) The system must be stimulated for use to enhance
    growth and prevent stagnation.
    7 SUBSYSTEMS OF THE
    BEHAVIOR SYSTEM
    MODEL
     Attachment or affiliative subsystem
    • Security seeking behavior
     Dependency subsystem
    • Nurturance–seeking behavior
     Ingestive subsystem
    • Taking in nourishment in socially and culturally acceptable
    ways.
    7 SUBSYSTEMS OF THE
    BEHAVIOR SYSTEM
     Eliminative subsystem
    MODEL
    • Riddling the body of waste in socially and culturally acceptable ways.
     Sexual subsystem
     Sexual and role identity behavior.
     Aggressive subsystem
    • Self–protective behavior.
     Achievement subsystem
    • Master of one’s self and one’s environment according to internalized
    standards of excellence.
    BEHAVIORAL SYSTEM
    MODEL AND THE NURSING
    PROCESS
     Assessment and Diagnosis of the patient
    – nursing care plan
     Evaluation
    – based on the balance of the subsystems
    STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES
     Dorothy Johnson’s theory  Though the seven subsystems
    guides nursing practice, identified by Johnson are said
    education, and research; to be open, linked, and
    generates new ideas about interrelated, there is a lack of
    nursing; and differentiates clear definitions for the
    nursing from other health interrelationships among them
    professions. which makes it difficult to
    view the entire behavioral
    system as an entity.

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