Reference: Tomey, Ann Marriner and Martha Raile Alligood.

Nursing
Theorists and Their Work, 5th Ed. Missouri: Mosby Inc., 2002.

Dorothy E. Johnson (1968)

Behavioral Systems Model

Metaparadigm:

Person Environment Health Nursing

A system of All forces that Health is Promotion of
interdependent affect the reflected by the behavioral
parts with person and that organization, system balance
patterned, influence the interaction, and stability; an
repetitive, behavioral interdependence external
purposeful ways system. and integration regulatory force
of behaving. A of subsystem of that acts to
behavioral behavioral preserve the
system system. organization
composed of 7 and integration
subsystems. of the client’s
behavior at
optimal level
under those
condition which
the behavior
constitutes a
threat to
physical or
social health or
which illness is
found.

Encoded by: Erika Nacario