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A patient’s rights to refuse certain treatments, or investigations, and how this non-compliance relates to the concept of learned helplessness in individuals,
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A patient's rights to refuse certain treatments, or investigations, and how this non-compliance relates to the concept of learned helplessness in individuals, particularly in a hospital setting By Henri Robben The concept of learned helplessness was first suggested by M. Seligman an animal psychologist, in 1975. During a series of experiments involving rats and dogs, he discovered that the animals which had some control over their environment (in being able to prevent a series of electric shocks) would always try to avoid the undesirable stimulus; whereas the animals which had previously had no control over their environment (and so were unable to prevent the shocks) eventually became apathetic and would not try to escape the stimulus, even if it was possible to do so. It was found that "Because these animals have learned that nothing they did work, they did nothing." [Page 237] (Brannon & Feist, 1992) The animals concerned had therefore learned to...
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