Adaptation:the process and outcome whereby thinking and feeling persons, as individuals and groups, use conscious awareness and choice to create human and environmental integration
Adaptation Level:adaptation level represents the condition of the life processes described on three levels as integrated, compensatory, and compromised
Adaptation Processes:activity of subsystems for coping of individuals and relational persons
Adaptive Modes:ways of manifesting adaptive processes
Cognator Subsystem:for individuals, a major coping process involving four cognitive-emotive channels: perceptual and information processing, learning, judgment and emotion.
Common Purposefulness:all persons and earth have both unity and diversity; are united in a common destiny; find meaning in mutual relations with each other, the treated world, and a God-figure
Compensatory Adaptation Level:cognator and regulator or stabilizer and innovator are activated by a challenge to the integrated life processes
Compromised Adaptation Level:results from inadequate integrated and compensatory life processes; an adaptation problem
Contextual Stimuli:all other stimuli present in the situation that contribute to the effect of the focal stimulus
Coping Processes:Innate or acquired ways of responding to the changing environment
Cosmic Unity:a philosophic view of reality which stresses the principle that people and earth have common patterns and integral relationships
Focal Stimulus:the internal or external stimulus most immediately confronting the human adaptive system
Holism:descriptive of individual and relational adaptive systems; stems from philosophical assumptions of person functioning as wholes in a unified expression of meaningful human behavior; includes common purposefulness and cosmic unity
Humanism:The broad movement in philosophy and psychology that recognized the person and subjective dimensions of the human experience as central to knowing and valuing (Roy, 1988); includes the development of specific schools of thought such as secular, atheistic or Christian humanism.
Innovator Subsystem:pertaining to humans in a group, the internal subsystem that involves structures and processes for change and growth
Integrated Adaptation Level:structures and functions of the life processes are working as a whole to meet human needs
Interdependence:the close relationships of people aimed at satisfying needs for affection, development of relationships, and resources to achieve relational integrity
Regulator Subsystem:for individuals, a major coping process involving the neural, chemical, and endocrine systems
Relational Persons:individuals relating in groups such as families, organizations, communities, and society as a whole; use stabilizer and innovator coping processes; with four adaptive modes of physical, groups identity, role function and interdependence (Hanna & Roy, 2001)
Relativity:refers to the belief that there is no way to determine objective truth or objective morality; subjectivity is emphasized and the truth becomes what is meaningful or significant within a given context, while good means pleasurable or satisfying; person's own thoughts and feelings are final guide to action (Roy, 2000)
Residual Stimulus:an environmental factor within or outside the human system with affects in the current situation that are unclear
Role:the function unit of society; each role exits in relation to another
Self-concept:the composite of beliefs and feelings that is held about oneself at a given time, formed from the internal perception and perceptions of others' reactions
Stabilizer Subsystem:for groups, the subsystem associated with system maintenance and involving established structures, values, and daily activities whereby participants accomplish the purpose of the social system
Stimulus:that which provokes a response, or more generally, the point of interactions of the human system and environment
Veritivity:principle of human nature that affirms a common purposefulness of human existence; components include a) purposefulness of human existence, b) unity of purpose in humankind, c) activity and creativity for the common good, d) value and meaning of life; the richness of rootedness in absolute truth
