Positive
attitudes and Self-care
Phrases
that promote positive attitudes:
Very
good, I knew you could. I’m sure you are capable.
I don’t
doubt your good intention.
John
thinks highly of you.
If you
need something, ask me.
I know
you didn’t mean to do it.
I’m
very proud of you.
You
know I love you lots.
I know
you are good.
I congratulate
you on what you have done.
When
you need me, I’ll help you.
I’ve
noticed that you’re getting better every day.
I believe
in what you have said.
You
know I want the best for you.
You
deserve the best.
You
can achieve whatever you want.
Your
next results will be better.
Self-care
a) How
to implement
(Garma 1999)
Self-care
has some principals which should be taken into consideration:
It is
an act of life which allows people to convert into subjects of their
own actions. Therefore, it is a voluntary process of the person
acting for themselves.
It should
be a philosophy of life and an individual responsibility intimately
linked to daily life and the experiences people have lived. At the
same time, it should be founded in a formal and informal support
system as are the social and health systems.
It is
a social practice that implies a certain amount of knowledge and
elaboration. It gives way to interchangeable and individual relationships.
b) Promoting
self-help
So that
people look after themselves on a daily basis, they need to include
the following strategies:
Develop
self-esteem and generate levels of strength or empowerment, as strategies
that are at the advantage of internalization of powerlessness. They
should favour the sense of personal control and develop skills of
personal motivation to change the personal and social conditions
in favour of health. On the other hand, upon powering the self-esteem
you are powered to self-stating, self-valuating, self-recognition
and self-expression all aspects which favour integral development.
Involve
the dialogue of knowledge, which allows you to identify, interpret
and understand the logic and the dynamics of the world in people’s
life whilst they are discovering and understanding its rationality,
sense and meaning. Being able to articulate it with scientific logic
and give off a clarified vision of the illness and of the health
which translates to healthy behaviour.
Explore
and understand the ruptures that exit between knowledge, attitudes
and practice and configure action plans that make harmony viable
between cognition and behaviour.
The
health agents should look after themselves as a daily process. If
they live healthily, self care will be promoted.
Contextualize
self-care; that is to say, choose a direction which agrees with
the characteristics of the person’s gender, ethnic and human
cycle. It is important to understand that everybody has a life story
with values, beliefs, learning’s and different motivations.
Generate
participating processes; the promotion of self-care should include
a more active and informed participation of the people in the care
of their own health. They need to understand that participation
is a process within which the community assumes for itself the care
of themselves and of the atmosphere that surrounds them, direction
the sensibilization to increase the level of control and commitment
on the health of the people that offer the health services and those
that receive it.
Self-care
means learning to participate in society, in its dynamic, using
their characteristics and specific conditions in a determined moment
and to take positions in front of social demands. The knowledge
learned through the socialization support the daily thought, the
construction of alternatives, the motivations, the actions and every
day decisions.
The
health agent should look for time to think and discuss what the
people know, live and feel in the different life and health situations
with which he can identify how to practice favourable, unfavourable
and innocuous self-help, through an educative process of reflection-action,
a return to practice to transform it.
