Framework for Health Assessment
2. 11 Gordon’s Functional Health Patterns
2.11. Coping-Stress Tolerance Pattern
Perception of Stress and Problems in Life
- Describe what you believe to be the most stressful situation in your Life.
- How has your illness affected the stress you feel?
- What do you usually do first when faced with a problem?
- What helps you to relieve stress and tension?
- Do you use medication, drugs, or alcohol to help relieve stress? Explain.
- Perform Mental Status Assessment for your client.
- Opportunity to enhance effective individual coping
- Opportunity to enhance family coping
- Risk for self-harm
- Risk for suicide
- Ineffective Individual Coping
- Ineffective Family Coping: Disabling