The Roy Adaptation Model

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of advocating a single unified model was an act of multi-oppressed
thinking influenced by men, the Roman Catholic Church and the medical world.
During a 1987 conference of nursing theorists, Sister Roy made a number
of deferring remarks to a speech made earlier by a male Bishop.
Fawcett also says the Roy Adaptation Model has an extensive vocabulary
and that some familiar words (ie adaption) have been given new meanings in Roy's
attempt to translate mechanistic ideas into organismic ones.

Oppressed Group Behaviour:

-assimilating the values and characteristics of the Oppressors. -Nursing leaders
represent an elite group promoted because of their allegiance to maintaining the
status quo. -leaders of Oppressed Groups are controlling, coercive and rigid.

Oppressors:

-education is important to maintaining the status quo. -Roy's Model follows the
Medical Model and tends to be Totalitarian and therefore is familiar to Medicine
- they would want to encourage it. -behaviour preferred ...

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contribute to the
systems' goals.
The person receives nursing care. Roy implies the client has an active
role in care and that he is a bio-psycho-social being who constantly interacts
with a changing environment.
The focus of nursing is the person. Roy in 1978, commented that although
the model may be applied to family, community in society it was developed
specifically for the person (medical model influence - Totalitarianism)
Perception links the Cognator and Regulator. Inputs to the Regulator are
transformed into perception. Perception is a process of the Cognator, responses
following perception are feedback into both the Regulator and Cognator.
Of the Cognator, there are three ...

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