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Educational Research (ISSN: 2141-5161) Vol. 2(12) pp. 1733-1737, December 2011 Available online@ http://www.interesjournals.org/ER Copyright © 2011 International Research Journals Review Self, self-care and self-management concepts: implications for self-management education 1Folorunso Dipo Omisakin and 2Busisiwe Purity Ncama 1School of Nursing, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Howard College Campus, Durban 4041, South Africa. 2Associate Professor, School of Nursing, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Howard College Campus, Durban 4041, Accepted 24 November, 2011 Principles imply fundamental truths upon which rest knowledge, learning, and teaching. Knowledge and principles are memorialized by and disseminated through words. The denotative word meanings must be agreed upon in order that principles and knowledge can be formally written and spoken so that, the structure of scientific information can be built. The terms selfconcept, self-care, self-management are significant in that they are foundational stones in the structure of self-management education. To illustrate some of the confusion related to them, randomly selected definitions from literature are presented for the sake of delineation. The purpose of this paper is to examine the concepts: self, self-care and self-management; an attempt to reach a better understanding of the interplay between these concepts in the selfmanagement education process. Keywords: Self, self-care, self-management, education.
Educational Research (ISSN: 2141-5161) Vol. 2(12) pp. 1733-1737, December 2011
Available online@ http://www.interesjournals.org/ER
Copyright © 2011 International Research Journals
Review
Self, self-care and self-management concepts:
implications for self-management education
1Folorunso Dipo Omisakin and 2Busisiwe Purity Ncama
1School of Nursing, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Howard College Campus, Durban 4041,
South Africa.
2Associate Professor, School of Nursing, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Howard College Campus, Durban 4041,
Accepted 24 November, 2011
Principles imply fundamental truths upon which rest knowledge, learning, and teaching.
Knowledge and principles are memorialized by and disseminated through words. The denotative
word meanings must be agreed upon in order that principles and knowledge can be formally
written and spoken so that, the structure of scientific information can be built. The terms self-
concept, self-care, self-management are significant in that they are foundational stones in the
structure of self-management education. To illustrate some of the confusion related to them,
randomly selected definitions from literature are presented for the sake of delineation. The
purpose of this paper is to examine the concepts: self, self-care and self-management; an
attempt to reach a better understanding of the interplay between these concepts in the self-
management education process.
Keywords: Self, self-care, self-management, education.
INTRODUCTION
What we remember, how we remember it, and the
sense we make of our experience are each importantly
shaped by our self-concept (Oyserman, 2001). That self
is both stable and mutable is in fact necessary to self-
care, self-management and self-improvement. It will be
appropriate to define some of the terms for better
understanding. A concept is a term that abstractly
describes an object or a phenomenon, thus providing it
with a separate identity or meaning (Burns and Grove,
2009). ‘Self’ is the sole motivational construct in self-
management education programmes. The self is
described as: the organized, consistent, conceptual
entity composed of perceptions of the characteristics of
“I” or “me” and the perception of the relationships of the
“I” or “me” to others and to various aspects of life,
together with the value attached to these perceptions
(Rogers, 1959: 200). The self develops through
interactions with others and involves awareness of
being and functioning. A distinctly psychological form of
the actualizing tendency related to this “self” is the “self-
actualizing tendency”. It involves the actualization of
that portion of experience symbolized in the self
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(Rogers, 1959). Connected to the development of the
self-concept and self- actualization are the “need for
positive regard from others” and “the need for positive
self-regard” an internalized version of the previous
(Maddi, 1996).
Review of literature
Self-concept and identity
Self-concept and identity provide answers to the basic
questions “Who am I?”, Where do I belong?”, and How
do I fit (or fit in)?” “Improving oneself, knowing oneself,
discovering oneself, creating oneself anew, expressing
oneself, taking charge of one’s self, being happy with
oneself, being ashamed of oneself, are all essential
self-projects, central to our understanding of what self-
concept and identity are and how they work”
(Oyserman, 2001). The self-concept is the seat of basic
effectance and competency drives, reflecting an innate
need to become effective, more competent over time
(Maslow, 1954). In addition to its self-promotive
functions, the self-concept also provides and maintains
a cognitive anchor, a consistent yardstick, or way of
making sense of who one is and therefore what to
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expect of the self and others.
Self-care concept
Definitions of self-care are wide-ranging. It refers to
individual responsibilities for healthy lifestyle behaviours
required for human development and functioning as
well as those activities required coping with health
conditions. According to Orem (1995), self-care is
behaviour initiated or performed by individuals on their
own to behalf to safe life and promote health. Self-care
suggests that individuals use their resources, including
personal attributes such as knowledge, skills, positive
attitudes, determination, courage, and optimism, to
improve poor health (Akinsola, 2001). Self-care
includes the actions individuals and carers take for
themselves, their children and their families to stay fit
and maintain good physical and mental health; meet
social and psychological needs; prevent illness or
accidents; care for minor ailments and long-term
conditions, and maintain health and well-being after an
acute illness or discharge from hospital (UK Department
of Health, 2006). Positive self-care behaviours includes:
lifestyle (diet and exercise); managing therapy
(concordance); using services affectively; and being
able to understand symptoms and problems and
responding to them appropriately (Forbes and While,
2009). “Self-care agency is the capability to perform
self-care activities. Measures necessary to promote and
maintain health comprise the therapeutic self-care
demand which, when exceeds self-care agency results
in self-care deficits” (Richard and Shea, 2011: 256).
Self-management concept
Self-management means different things in different
fields, in business, education, and psychology, self-
management refers to methods, skills, and strategies by
which individuals can effectively direct their own
activities toward the achievement of objectives, and
includes goal setting, decision making, focusing,
planning, scheduling, task tracking, self-evaluation, self-
intervention, self-development. In the field of computer
science, self-management refers to the process by
which pre-programmed computer systems will (one
day) manage their own operation without human
intervention. Self-management may also refer to a form
of workplace decision-making in which the employees
themselves agree on choices (for issues like customer
care, general production methods, scheduling, division
of labour) instead of the supervisor telling workers what
to do, how to do it and where to do it, in the traditional
way.
The concept of self-management is understood both
as an educative process and an outcome. As an
educative process, self-management programmes
include: participation in education designed to bring
about specific outcomes; preparation of individuals to
manage their health conditions on a day-to-day basis;
the practice of specific behaviour; and the development
of skills and abilities needed to reduce the physical and
emotional impact of illness, with or without the
collaboration of the healthcare team (McGowan, 2005).
In health care, self-management refers to the
individual’s ability to manage the symptoms, treatment,
physical and psychosocial consequences and the
lifestyle changes inherent in living with a chronic
condition (Barlow et al., 2002). Efficacious self-
management encompasses ability to monitor one’s
condition and to achieve the cognitive, behavioural and
emotional responses necessary to maintain a
satisfactory quality of life. Self-management is well
known in the field of health and social care, the term is
linked with models of coping with adversity through self-
help, self-reliance, and family and community reliance
(Newbould et al., 2006). The emergence and
development of self-management programmes can be
attributed to:
1 The growth of policy-makers’ interest in self-care and
lay-led self-management approaches to living with
chronic illness.
2 The increasing numbers of people seeking to control
their own approaches to living with illness with or
without the help of medical practitioners and other
professionals.
3 An increase in awareness of the need to address
chronic illnesses, and employ self-management and
other approaches to minimize the distress and other
cost that they impose.
4 The belief that promoting self-management and
helping individuals to manage potentially disabling
conditions better may well have the potential to help
them enhance their quality of life.
5 The process of demographic and epidemiological
transition, along with the emergence of new attitudes
towards health care delivery, which have been the main
drivers of self-management in health care.
Delineation of self-care and self-management
concepts
While self-care and self-management concepts have
been discussed in detail in literature, the differences
between and relationships among the concepts are not
clear (Richard and Shea, 2011). According to Richard
and Shea (2011), self-care involves both the ability to
care for oneself and the performance of activities
necessary to achieve, maintain, or promote optimal
health. It may be viewed as a continuum ranging from
complete independence in managing health to complete
reliance on medical care (Wilkinson and Whitehead,
2009). It should be noted that: self-care is situation and
culturally influenced; involves the ability to make
decisions and perform actions directly under the control
of the individual; and is influenced by a variety of
individual characteristics (Gantz, 1990). It is also good
to note that the concept of self-care underpins many
nursing interventions, particularly those supportive and
educative activities intended to promote the ability of
individuals or families to assume responsibility for an
individual’s healthcare needs (Cebeci and Senol, 2008;
Sidani, 2011). Self-management is the ability of the
individual, in conjunction with family, community and
healthcare professionals to manage symptoms,
treatments, lifestyle changes and psychosocial, cultural,
and spiritual consequences of chronic diseases
(Wilkinson and Whitehead, 2009), an ability and
process that individuals use in conscious attempts to
gain control of his or her disease, rather than being
controlled by it (Thorne et al., 2003). There is
consensus among scholars that the term self-
management can apply to health promotion activities as
well as to those related to acute or chronic illness
(Wagner et al., 2002; Lorig and Holman, 2003; Jerant et
al., 2005; Wilde and Garvin, 2007). It is different from
disease-management which is not under the individual
patient’s control but refers healthcare systems that are
put in place to facilitate healthcare provider’s ability to
manage a patient’s chronic illness (Wagner, 2000). The
process of self-management includes monitoring
perceived health and implementing strategies to
manage treatments and medications, safety, symptoms,
and other implications of chronic disease (Thorne et al.,
2003).
Self-management education
Self-management education aims at helping patients to
maintain, mainly by their own efforts, the best possible
health. This is done by concentrating on three sets of
tasks, as delineated by Corbin and Strauss (1988).
According to Corbin and Strauss, the first task involves
the medical management and includes taking
medication, adhering to a special diet, or using an
inhaler. The second set of tasks involves maintaining,
changing, and creating new meaningful behaviour of
lifestyles. The final task requires one to deal with the
emotional sequelae of having a chronic condition, which
alters one’s view of the future. Emotions such as anger,
fear, frustration, and depressions are commonly
experienced by someone with a chronic disease;
learning to manage these conditions therefore becomes
part of the work required to manage the condition. Self-
management education, according to Corbin and
Strauss (1988), must include content that addresses all
three tasks: medical and behavioural management,
lifestyle management and emotional management.
Although most health promotion and health education
programmes deal with the medical and behavioural
management, most do not systematically deal with all
three tasks.
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For self-management education to focus on patient
concerns and problems, a detailed needs assessment
must be done for each new topic and group of patients.
Lorig and Holman (2003) have identified five core self-
management skills: problem solving, decision making,
resource utilization, formation of a patient/health care
provider partnership, and taking action. People living
with chronic conditions must be taught basic problem
solving skills. These include problem definition,
generation of possible solutions, including the
solicitation of suggestions from friends and health care
professionals, solution implementation and evaluation
of results. A second self-management skill is decision
making. Persons with chronic illness must make day-to-
day decisions in response to changes in disease
condition. To do this they must have the knowledge
necessary to respond to common changes. Decision-
making is based on having sufficient appropriate
information. The understanding of the self which will
allow for appropriate decision making is central to self-
management education. A third self-management core
skill is the finding and utilization of resources. Self-
management education includes teaching people how
to use resources and helping them to seek these from
different sources. For best results, it is important to
contact several potential resources at the same time as
if casting a net widely for information. This skill is basic
but often overlooked in traditional health promotion and
patient education programmes. The fourth self-
management skill is helping people to form partnerships
with health care providers. The patient must be able to
report accurately the trends and tempo of the disease,
make informed choices about treatment, and discuss
these with the health care provider. Self-management
training prepares people with chronic illness to
undertake these tasks.
Self-management education utilizes a patient-centred
approach and operates through empowerment. The
patient-centred approach focuses on the inherent
growth principle and the major attitudinal conditions. It
calls for self-awareness, reflective listening, empathy
and development of communication skills by clinicians
(Mead and Bower, 2000; Epstein et al., 2005). It
includes exploring the social and psychological aspects
of the patient’s health status; understanding the
personal meaning of illness for patients by eliciting their
concerns, ideas, expectations, needs, feelings and
functioning; promoting the understanding of patients
within their unique psychosocial context; sharing power
and responsibility, and developing common therapeutic
goals that are concordant with patient’s values (Drach-
Zahavy, 2009). The central hypothesis of this approach
is that the individual has within him or her vast
resources for self understanding, for altering his or her
self-concept, attitudes, and self-directed behaviour.
These resources can be tapped if a definable climate of
facilitative psychological attitudes can be provided
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(Barbara, 1986).
CONCLUSION
Self-management education give further insight into
one’s being, one’s own life’s purpose, and one’s
position in life. These three, help one locate oneself
(even in the middle of environmental chaos and
personal mental conflicts); promote acceptance of one’s
situation; open doors to personal clarity; and add
supports to one’s self-meaning leading to development
of self-care and self-management traits that promotes
self-healing.
Implications for self-management education
Self-management should promote self-understanding
and self-development for the participants, and there
should be a movement towards being empowered. This
can be achieved through transformative learning within
a supportive and enabling environment. The main task
of the self-management educator is to recruit learners
to understand and identify with the kind of discourse
rules and paradigms of understanding that are most
appropriate for self-management education, such as
regular attendance, commitment, no outside contact,
free and open communication among others when in a
group.
It is crucial for the discourse of self-understanding
and self-development to pay due attention to basic
needs of the self, empathy, the significance of self-
object functions, the repetitive and self-object
transferences, and self-object failures. During self-
management education learners gradually learn
aspects of the language of self understanding to
appreciate self-object functions from other learners (and
the educator) and to identify and manage their own
experiences of self-object failures. Karterud and Stone
(2003) contend that when people feel strengthened
after a group session, this is partly due to participating
in a kind of discourse, rich in cognitive and affective
perspectives and nuances, that the individual is unable
to perform for himself. They concluded that the
conversation which enables the individual to understand
more fully intra-psychic, interpersonal and group events
is not attributable to specific individuals but a supra-
individual discourse event.
The self-management educator considered the
developments and interactions that are necessary for
learners to feel that belonging to the group will be
emotionally satisfying, will help them feel that they
belong to a worthwhile enterprise, that they will feel
more powerful , more complete, more able to pursue
their personal goals and stand-up for their ideals.
Learners are expected to orient themselves by
obtaining information from the educator on what ways
to make the experience useful which they hope will not
only reduce anxiety but provide direction.
Self understanding and self development requires an
oscillation between deconstruction of defensive self
structures and construction of authentic self structures
by reactivation and working through of archaic self-
object transferences. The self-management educator’s
main task is to guide participants through a phase of
partial resolution of individual and collective
submissiveness, to mobilize anger towards old and new
authoritative figures to activate the striving for
autonomy, to facilitate a fresh series of negotiations of
the basic rules and grounding discourse rules, whereby
the participants can properly say they ‘own’ the group
which means that the group self is grounded in a
collective project.
The self-management educator relinquishes his
pastoral power (his accepted authoritative expertise)
and assumes the status of a facilitator, to provide an
enabling environment for people to go through a
process of self-exploration, self-discovery and self-
regulation being motivated by self-actualization
tendency. Self-management educators seek to expand
peoples’ sense of self-interest to a wider sphere.
People grow through these facilitation processes, and
develop the self-management skills needed to perform
self-management tasks. Within the confines of the self-
management education process, people are
encouraged to seek self-knowledge and share this with
the facilitator. Consequently, people develop through a
process of knowing the self to practice in taking care of
oneself. Similarly, during self-management education,
evolution of the self activated through self-reflection is
prompted by the caring agent (the educator) who helps
participants to consider their actions and beliefs in
comparison to acknowledged or newly-unveiled
discourses and associated truths.
The need for positive regard from others and positive
self-regard is closely related to the way in which an
individual evaluates himself/herself, and there is likely
to be congruence between self and experience, with full
psychological adjustment as a result (Rogers, 1959).
When ‘significant others’ (partners, parents, close
friends or relations) in the person’s world provide
positive regard, the person introjects the desired values,
making them his or her own, and acquires “conditions of
worth” (Rogers, 1965).
The human capacity for awareness and the ability to
use symbols gives us enormous power, but this is a
double-edged phenomenon: undistorted awareness can
lead to full functioning and a rich life, while distortion in
awareness can lead to maladjustment and destructive
behaviour (Rogers, 1965). The individual’s self-concept
then becomes based on these standards of value rather
than on evaluation. The need for positive self-regard
leads to a selective perception of experience in terms of
the conditions of worth that now exist. Experiences are
perceived and symbolized accurately in awareness,
while those that are not relevant are distorted or denied
into awareness. Engagement in self-management prog-
rammes allows the participant to use self-reflexivity to
discover, with the assistance of the facilitator,
dominating discourses and power structures. By coming
to know the self, and gaining an awareness of a set of
rules of conduct, the participant can then redirect
activities according to this newly-acquired knowledge.
Evolution of self allows persons to adopt newly-
discovered ways of being by acting on their own
initiative in relation to the enabling environment.
Self-management education learners examine their
own (and others) behaviour and beliefs against a set of
pre-established norms. The learners undergo the
process of evolution of self, and gain a new
understanding of themselves. They may then use this
knowledge to move towards a new way of being and
gain functional autonomy, becoming fully functioning
persons. This movement towards full function is the
change process which the educator should be
attempting to capture. Therefore, change emerges
organically from the self-management education
process and “effective emancipation is achieved
through the process of stringent self-examination,
exposure of dominating ideologies and the subsequent
actions taken by participants themselves to move
towards a new way of being (McCabe and Holmes,
2009).
In self-management education, people learn who they
are and gain the collective power to determine the
direction of their lives. Because human beings cannot
be separated from their social and historical contexts,
reality is not a static entity but a process of
transformation. By engaging in acts of enlightenment
and empowerment, human beings become liberated
and therefore become more fully human. It should also
be noted that people often experience enlightenment,
empowerment, and emancipation as overlapping circles
of insight and action that create and are the result of
raised consciousness. Empowerment and potential
emancipation depend on the relations of power in a
particular context, and result from techniques employed
by both teachers and learners during the self-
management education research process (McCabe and
Holmes, 2009). Emancipation involves the
understanding of the environmental truths which
influence people and requires individuals or groups to
negotiate new modes of acting. The empowerment that
results from awareness of the current set of truths and
dominating power structures encourages people to
undertake actions to improve their situation and move
towards emancipation (Manias and Street, 2001).
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