UNDERSTANDING THE HUMAN BECOMING THEORY
This theory was based on Dr. Parse's live experience in nursing and its poor fit with the existing paradigms.
The theory focuses on the human-universe-health process and is based on the premise that the human being pursues and creates his own process of being with the world.
The uniqueness of the theory is its perspective on paradoxes of human becoming. The theory emphasizes the relationship between human and environment with paradoxical rhythmical patterns.
She developed the Theory of Human Becoming through a combination of concepts from Martha Rogers and from existential-phenomenological thought. Her nine assumptions are based on the three main themes of meaning, rhythmicity, and transcendence. Each theme leads to a principle: meaning relates to imagining, valuing, and languaging; rhythmicity relates to revealing-concealing, enabling-limiting, and connecting-separating; transcendence relates to powering, originating, and transforming.
ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT THE HUMAN AND THE BECOMING
1. The human is coexisting while coconstituting rhythmical patterns with the universe. – Individuals take an active party in creating their own patterns and reality.
2. The human is open, freely choosing meaning in situation, bearing responsibility for decisions. – Human beings make choices on how to act and react. They are responsible for the outcome of these choices.
3. The human is unitary, continuously coconstituting patterns of relating. – People are more than a sum of their parts. One can be distighished from another by patterns of appearance, mannerisms, voice and other characteristics.
4. The human is transcending multidimensionally with the possibles – The human is capable of changing and growing beyond their limitations.
5. Becoming is an open process, experienced by the human. – Becoming is continous growth towards more diversity & complexity. Growing includes choosing who one will be in a given situation.
6. Becoming is a rhythmically coconstituting human-universe process – Health & becoming are intertwined. The elements of our environment in which we connect and separate from, change us. With these elements we coconsitute.
7. Becoming is the human’s patterns of relating value priorities. – Health is living the ideals chosen by the individual.
8. Becoming is an intersubjective process of transcending with the possibles – Health is reaching beyond the actual to the possible through subject to subject interchange. This interchange can occur through two persons or with another element of the environment.
9. Becoming is human unfolding – We are continuously changing, never to return to our previous state
KEY CONCEPT
1. STRUCTURING MEANING MULTIDIMENSIONALLY IS COCREATING REALITY THROUGH THE LANGUAGING OF VALUING & IMAGING
Many universes exist for a person at any time. Reality is the harmony between these universes reached through a person’s choice. Personal reality includes all that a person is and will become. Constructing reality is giving meaning to unique experience. Structuring meaning is done through imaging, valuing and languaging.
Imaging – An infertile couple believes there are many children in need of loving homes and plan to adopt.
Valuing – An older woman begins to exercise and watch her diet as she is concerned about her health.
Languaging – A man diagnosed with terminal cancer finds the words and the strength to talk to his family about it.
2. COCREATING RHYTHMICAL PATTERNS OF RELATING IS LIVING THE PARADOXICAL UNITY OF REVEALING-CONCEALING & ENABLING-LIMITING WHILE CONNECTING-SEPARATING.
Revealing-Concealing – A pregnant youth must reveal her secret to her parents.
Enabling-Limiting – A patient chooses to refuse a treatment.
3. COTRANSCENDING WITH THE POSSIBLES IS POWERING UNIQUE WAYS OF ORIGINATING IN THE PROCESS OF TRANSFORMING
Going beyond the actual in interrelationship with others. Another person may help you grow beyond perceived limits even though the person must do the moving their self. The energy for moving on is called powering.
Powering – Parents learn to be strong and move on with life after losing their youngest child in an accident.
Originating – A woman raises money for breast cancer research to honour her grandmother.
Transforming – An elderly man finally accepts outside help as he is no longer able to care for his wife
STRENGTHS
1. It gives baseline
description on how human being behave towards the environment.
2. It gives a different prospective on nursing
which make it different to other medical profession.
3. Useful in Education such:
=Provides research methodology
=Provides framework to guide inquiry of other theories (grief, hope, laughter,
etc.)LIMITATION
1. Research considered to be in a
"closed circle".
2. Rarely quantifiable results -
difficult to compare to other research studies, no control group, standardized
questions, etc.
3. Does not utilized the nursing
process/ diagnoses.
4. Negates the idea that each person
engages in a unique lived experience.
5. Not accessible to the novice nurse.
6. Not applicable to acute, emergent
care
Analysis and Evaluation of the Human Becoming Theory
The above PowerPoint in Authorstream was taken in the web
while we are doing our research. This is an analysis and evaluation done by
Jennifer Isenor and Dianne Hytton of Dr. Parce and the Theory of Human
Becoming. The H-Team would gladly share the said PowerPoint to everyone for a
more visual, thorough explanation and more understanding of the Theory. Please
bear with the poor audio, but they are quite audible with the help oh the text in every slides (to
hear the audio and the authors voice, click on the audio icon in every slide).
REFERENCES:
http://currentnursing.com/nursing_theory/Rosemary_Pars_Human_Becoming_Theory.html
http://www.virtualcurriculum.com/N3225/Fawcett_Parse.pdf
http://discoveryinternationalonline.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/2011HBontology.pdf
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Nice write up
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