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Problems & Processes
Persons may experience problems managing their health condition.
They may experience problems in their home, their worklife, their relationships with family and friends.
Here is a process that people can use to help solve problems they might experience.
Problem solving:
- Determining the problem and the cause of the problem - Describe it.
- Coming up with some ideas that could solve the problem
- Determine which idea to try
- Try the idea for two weeks to see if it works
Book: Owning our struggles Minaa B.
“ Self-care is the bridge to community-care, and community-care is the bridge to community healing.”
Book: Living a healthy life with chronic conditions Bull Publishing 2020
Self-Management Plan:
Decide what you want to accomplish (your goal)
Look for ways to accomplish your goal
Draft a short term action plan or agreement with yourself
Carry out your action plan
Check the results
Make changes as needed
Reward yourself for your success
What are the processes of a typical Self-Management plan?
Persons may experience problems managing their health condition. They may experience problems in their home, their worklife, their relationships with family and friends. Here is a process that people can use to help solve problems they might experience.
Problem solving: Determining the problem and the cause of the problem - Describe it. Coming up with some ideas that could solve the problem Review ideas and choose one they believe will work best Try the idea for two weeks to see if it works. If not, try a different idea.
Making Action Plans: - Process Sometimes its hard for us to do things that we want to do even though we know it will be good for our health. Action plans is a structured step by step, self management technique that can be helpful when someone wants to start or change a behavior.
Step 1: think of something you want to achieve in the future
Step 2: Think of a small step you can do to achieve it.
Step 3: Decide if you can really do the activity , If not, think of another activity.
Step 4: Decide how much of the activity you want to do
Step 5: How often will you actually do the activity
Step 6: How sure are you that you will do the activity 0-10 should be at least a 7
Success builds confidence. Set up for success. Have a back up plan ready.
Plan can fail if: Make a plan for every day Hedges on plan (... if?) Plan depends on another person Plan seems too much
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Updated: November 2023
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