3. SELF-AWARENESS
Key component of the psychiatric
nursing experience.
Goal: to achieve
authentic, open, and personal
communication.
The nurse must be able to
examine personal
feelings, actions, and reactions as
4. A firm
understanding
and acceptance
of self allows the
nurse to
acknowledge a
patient’s
differences and
uniqueness.
5.
6. HOLISTIC NURSING MODEL OF SELF-
AWARENESS (Campbell)
Psychological component: knowledge of
emotions, motivations, self-concept, and
personality. Being psychologically aware
means being sensitive to feelings and to
external elements that affect those
feelings.
Physical component: knowledge of
personal and general physiology, as well
as of bodily sensations, body image, and
physical potential.
7. Environmental component: socio-cultural
environment, relationships with others, and
knowledge of the relationships between
humans and nature.
Philosophical component: refers to the
sense of life having meaning; may or may
not include a superior being, but it does
take into account responsibility to the world
and ethics of behavior.
12. Principles:
A change in any one quadrant affects all
the other quadrants.
The smaller the first quadrant, the poorer
the communication.
Interpersonal learning means that a
change has taken place, so quadrant 1 is
larger and one or more of the other
quadrants are smaller.
13.
14. Goal: increase the area of quadrant 1
while reducing the size of the other
quadrants.
15. Listen to self
allow genuine emotions to be experienced
Identify and accept personal needs
Move the body in free, joyful and
spontaneous ways.
Listen to and learn from others
As we relate to others, we broaden our
perceptions of self, but such learning
requires active listening and openness to
the feedback others provide.
16. Reduce the size of quadrant 3 by self-
disclosing.
Revealing to others important aspects of
the personality.
Self- disclosure: symptom of personality
health and a means of achieving healthy
personality.
