Johnson’s Behavioral Health Model
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Johnson’s Behavioral Health Model
Johnson perceived health as effective and efficient functioning of the system, as well as behavioral system balance and stability. Besides, the observed purposeful, predictable, and orderly behavior can best help in demonstrating the behavioral system balance and stability. Johnson’s model of health also perceives the patient as a living open system, by viewing the patient as an assortment of interrelated behavioral subsystems for forming a behavioral system. Hence, the behavior is always the system rather than an individual. Such a behavioral system is characterized by regular, goal-directed, repetitive, and predictable behaviors that are often striving towards balance (Karkhah et al., 2020). There are various clinical practice situations that can help in demonstrating Johnson’s model of health.
Johnson’s Behavioral Health Model
Johnson’s model of health can be utilized within a clinical practice situation for assessing the behavioral systems of the client. In this case, the approach acts as an effective means to determine the several factors impacting an individual’s capability of coping with and adapting to change. For instance, the model can be utilized as a conceptual framework to assess the various needs of visually impaired children within the nursing practice. It implies that the Johnson’s health model is a significant practical tool utilized to implement all the nursing process’ phases that encompass the child’s needs, feelings, and desires. The Johnson’s model can also be utilized for assessing the cognitive development of a chronically ill 6-year-old child (McGovern, Dent & Kessler, 2018). As a result, this allows the nurse in objectively describing the behavior of the patient, which serves as a way of indicating the presence of any adverse health symptoms, including disequilibrium.
Another clinical practice situation is the use of Johnson’s health model within a group situation. For instance, it can best apply within a support group for the Alzheimer’s caregivers, whereby a definite requirement is problem solving in addition to making choices for adapting to lifestyle changes. Also, for the professional nurses within clinical practice, applying Johnson’s model for assessing clients would significantly allow them in categorizing the phenomena they are observing (Meleis, 2021). They would as well be capable of gaining insight into various clinical situations with which they would be dealing with.
Additionally, a nurse can use various ways for supporting Johnson’s health theory for returning the patient to balance and stability. For instance, a nurse can decide to regulate the patient’s behavior since it is the best way of getting back the balance and stability. In this case, the nurses within care facilities need to pay more attention to any changes occurring within the patient’s behaviors. As observed by McGovern, Dent, and Kessler (2018), nurses should consider altering both the internal and external environment in addition to stimulating the recovery process as a way of helping the patient in returning to the normal stability and balance. The unfamiliar environment within some healthcare facilities can sometimes result in aggressive behavior, particularly amongst the elderly within such facilities. Therefore, nurses should stimulate the recovery process to help the elderly overcome the aggressive behavior and return to balance and stability.
Johnson believed that the nurse has a basic responsibility of supporting the patient in restoring balance and stability when lost, or even achieving the status quo in case of imbalance, which implies returning to normal balance. Therefore, nurses should show patience with those clients with aggressive behaviors to determine the cause of the problem, which can either be emotional stress or anger (Karkhah et al., 2020). Thus, it is upon the nurse in creating a conducive external environment that can enable the patient to open up.
References
Karkhah, S., Ghazanfari, M. J., Norouzi, M., Khaleghdoust, T., Dahka, S. M., & Taheri, Z. (2020). Designing a nursing care plan based on Johnson’s behavioral model in patients with wrist joint hematoma: A case study.
McGovern, M., Dent, K., & Kessler, R. (2018). A unified model of behavioral health integration in primary care. Academic Psychiatry, 42(2), 265-268.
Meleis, A. I. (2021). Historical Background for Theories: Revisiting the Past to Create the Future. In Situation Specific Theories: Development, Utilization, and Evaluation in Nursing (pp. 3-11). Springer, Cham.