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Self-ranging
Patient-administered passive or active assistive range-of-motion exercise. Patients can be taught to prevent contractures and facilitate movement by using their unaffected extremities and by means of specific techniques. Care should be taken to prevent injury, especially at the shoulder.
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Self-pity
A mental defense mechanism involving self-blame, negativism, feelings of rejection, worthlessness, hopelessness, or isolation.
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Risk for self-mutilation
A state in which an individual is at high risk to perform a deliberate act upon the self with the intent to injure, not kill, which produces immediate tissue damage to the body.
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Self-management
Active participation by a patient in his or her own health care decisions and interventions. With the education and guidance of professional caregivers, the patient promotes his or her own optimal health or recovery.
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Self-limited disease
A disease that- eventually goes away even if untreated.
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Self-insured
Having personal financial responsibility for health care costs, as a result of dedicated savings or investments.
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Self-help
Action taken by a person to improve his or her life educationally, emotionally, financially, interpersonally, or socially.
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Situational low self-esteem
Episodic feelings about self or capabilities that develop in response to a loss or change.
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Chronic low self-esteem
Long-standing negative feelings about self or capabilities.
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Self-determination theory
A theory of human motivation and personality that purports to understand and explain human choices in social contexts, as influenced by that person’s beliefs, needs, and desire to influence or be affected by his or her environment. When one is intrinsically motivated to move toward realistic goals one chooses, one has a better chance of…
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