This description refers to adaptation and adaptive behaviors produced by altering the environment, with maladaptive responses to adverse stimuli as examples. Which model is this?

This description refers to adaptation and adaptive behaviors produced by altering the environment, with maladaptive responses to adverse stimuli as examples. Which model is this?

• A. Roy Adaptation Model
• B. King Model of Goal Attainment
• C. Orem Self-Care Model
• D. Neuman Systems Model

Answer: (A)

Adaptation to environmental stimuli and the nurse’s role in modifying the environment to produce adaptive responses is the focus here. In the Roy Adaptation Model, the person is viewed as a dynamic system that adapts through coping processes across four modes: physiologic, self-concept, role function, and interdependence. Nursing action centers on regulating environmental stimuli—focal stimuli that demand attention, contextual stimuli that influence how stimuli are appraised, and residual stimuli whose meaning is unclear—to promote adaptive responses and minimize maladaptive ones. When adverse stimuli overwhelm coping or are not managed effectively, maladaptive responses emerge, signaling a need to adjust the environment to restore balance and support adaptation. This model specifically emphasizes shaping the environment to drive adaptive behavior, which is why it best fits the description. Other models focus on different emphases—goal attainment through nurse-patient collaboration, self-care deficits, or system-level stress and defenses—rather than adaptation through environmental modification in the same explicit way.

Adaptation to environmental stimuli and the nurse’s role in modifying the environment to produce adaptive responses is the focus here. In the Roy Adaptation Model, the person is viewed as a dynamic system that adapts through coping processes across four modes: physiologic, self-concept, role function, and interdependence. Nursing action centers on regulating environmental stimuli—focal stimuli that demand attention, contextual stimuli that influence how stimuli are appraised, and residual stimuli whose meaning is unclear—to promote adaptive responses and minimize maladaptive ones. When adverse stimuli overwhelm coping or are not managed effectively, maladaptive responses emerge, signaling a need to adjust the environment to restore balance and support adaptation. This model specifically emphasizes shaping the environment to drive adaptive behavior, which is why it best fits the description. Other models focus on different emphases—goal attainment through nurse-patient collaboration, self-care deficits, or system-level stress and defenses—rather than adaptation through environmental modification in the same explicit way.