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Interpersonal Model and Behavior Deviation

Interpersonal Model

The theorist most representative of the interpersonal model is Harry Stack Sullivan. A twentieth-century American Therapist. In addition, attention is given to the interpersonal nursing theory of Hildegard Peplau. Her work represents a milestone in the conceptualization of the psychotherapeutic role of the nurse in the context of the interpersonal relationship.

Role of nurses according to this model is the share anxieties (attempting to share about what the client feels, what he used to worry about clients when dealing with others), Empathy and therapist use relationship (nurses trying to be empathetic and helped to feel what perceived by the client), nurses do a verbal response that encourages a sense of security clients in dealing with others such as: "I enjoyed talking with you, you are very nice for me”.

View of Behavior Deviation

Interpersonal theorists believe that behavior evolves around interpersonal relationship. While Freudian theory emphasizes a person’s intra psychic experience. Interpersonal theory emphasizes social or interpersonal experience. Sullivan, like freud. Traces a progression of psychological development. Sullivan’s theory states that the person bases behavior on two drive for security. Satisfaction refers to the basic human drives, including hunger, sleep, lust and loneliness. Security relates to culturally devalue system of the individual’s ethnic group. Sullivan states that when the nature of a person’s self system interferes with the ability to attend to the need for either satisfaction or security. The person will become mentally ill.

When Peplau defined nursing as an interpersonal process, she also discussed the importance of basic human needs. Needs must be met if a healthy state is to be achieved and maintained. For Peplau, the two interacting components of health are physiological demands and interpersonal conditions. These may be viewed as parallel to the drives of satisfaction and security identified by Sullivan, as evident in the following clinical example.

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