2. INTRODUCTION
Personal disorganization represents the behavior of the individual
which deviates from the social norms.
It results in social disapproval which may express itself in a wide
variety of degrees. The individual may also react in different ways.
A disorganized person is one who is uncoordinated, unbalanced and
one sided.
3. DEFINITIONS
“Personal disorganization represents the deviant behaviour of an
individual”.
PREM SHARMA MODGIL
“Personal disorganization is a disturbance of a systematic arrangement
causing disorder and confusion in an individual’s life”.
PAWAN SHARMA
4. CHARACTERSTICS OF PERSONAL
DISORGANIZATION:
• Personal disorganization is an intermittent process or temporary
stage of an individual’s life
• It is a state of disregard of values, norms and laws
• It is a state of absence of social control on individual
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• It is a state of disagreement of other opinion or acceptable facts by the
society
• The victim of personal disorganization shows individuality and variety of
his own interests and attitudes.
• The victim of personal disorganization emphasizes on his rights than on his
duties in the group
• It is a state of conflict between mores of an individual and his group.
6. STAGES OF PERSONAL
DISORGANIZATION:
• Queen and Mann have pointed out three stages in individual or
personal disorganization. The stages are:
1.First Stage: In the first stage there is a problem and the
individual attempts to find a solution. But if the individual fails
to find a solution, he loses his stability.
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2. Second Stage: In the second stage of personal disorganization, some
persons may reach the third stage without even passing through the second
stage. Therefore, the third stage becomes important.
3. Third Stage: In the third stage the individual loses his stability, he may
have a nervous breakdown. If there is no satisfactory solution the individual
enters upon more or less permanently unadjusted.
For example, the criminal or the prostitutes who have lost all sense of social
values. This personal disorganization may also lead to insanity or suicide.
8. FACTORS :
• Elliott and Merrill have mentioned four kinds of factors that often
disturb the individual’s pattern of living and the following are:
1. Biological factors: This include difficulties arising out of
functional disorder. E.G. physical illness, injury, mental deficiencies
or personal inadequacies.
• Due to biological nature, the handicapped individual becomes
maladjusted and unable to overcome his obvious disadvantages.
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2. Environment factors: This includes situations like economic
distress, confusion and conflict in social relations in the family, in
the economic world, in religious institutions or in recreational
activities, which may bring disorganization in the individual's life.
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3. Insecurity of status and role: When the child or the adult may search
for security in the society, as the child’s sense of security is based upon
the fact that he is his parent’s child and belongs to his parents in a very
real sense.
• When this sense is threatened and when the individual feels there is a
lack of recognition and acceptance with the members of his family or
his playmates or his fellow-workmen or other associates status this
further results in disorganization.
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4. Social Crisis: It includes sudden shocks in the life of an
individual whether due to the death of his near relation or loss of
services, loss of property, death of breadwinner etc. which may
disturb his life organization.
12. CAUSES OF PERSONAL DISORGANIZATION :
The chief causes of personal disorganizations are as follows :
1.Conflict of Personal attitudes and social norms: The attitudes and
interests of man keep changing with time and the changes in society.
• When the conflict between man's needs and desires becomes acute and he
becomes unable to control himself he indulges in antisocial acts like
alcoholism, murder, rape, prostitution, cheating, fraud etc.
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2. Abnormalities of Personality: Some individuals develop strong
complexes early in life which impede their successful adjustment with
society.
• For example, Abnormally short and abnormally tall persons experience
considerable difficulty in this matter.
3. Personal Disabilities: Due to mental and physical complexes person is
unable to make proper adjustments.
• A person who is mongolism or some other abnormalities like amputated
limb, mental retardation can not be a good member of society.
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4. Conflict of Roles: A man is sometimes unable to harmonize different roles he may occupy or
may be called to fulfill.
• E.G. A business executive usually is unable to be a good husband. The wives of big executives
keep paramours and this may lead to divorce and other unpleasant complications.
5. Social Crisis: Due to some precipitate crises in society, individuals become disturbed
personalities.
• E.G. The death of a breadwinner of a family upsets the family members.
• An earthquake or some other natural calamity may compel people to leave homes and migrate
to other social environment.
6. Crisis of Values: There is always a gap in the thinking of old and young. Sometimes the
conflict is so acute that either young people rebel and leave homes.
15. TYPES OF PERSONAL DISORGANIZATION:
• Types of personal disorganization are the following:
1.Sex offenders: Rape, bestially, homoerotism, pedophilia, plural sex, oral-genital
contacts are some of the examples of sexually deviant behavior.
• A person addicted to any of these and preferring them to heterosexuality is an
unstable person.
16. 2. ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG-ADDICTION:
• Person who is alcoholic, smokes ganja or swallows
amphetamines and barbiturates, in order to escape from the
realities of life.
• These things are poisons of the soul. Their moderate use may be
condoned but any excess in this matter is injurious to both body
and mind.
17. 3. JUVENILE DELINQUENCY:
• Social and family disorganization affect young people most. The
children coming from slums and broken homes see different
types of sex and crime while very young.
• Therefore, their minds are overexcited but immature.
• Thus they are unstable to seek adjustment with society.
18. 4. SUICIDE:
• Suicide is the most vicious form of personal disorganization. According to
Durkheim, there are four types of suicide:
1. Egoistic Suicide
2. Altruistic Suicide
3. Anomic Suicide
4. Fatalistic Suicide
• The last type is due to social disorganization.
19. ROLE OF NURSE IN DEALING WITH A CLIENT
WITH PERSONAL DISORGANIZATION:
Close observation of the client is required
Monitor the level of consciousness, sleeping pattern, health status and
behavioural changes
Assist the client in self care activities
Provide psychological support
Do not allow the client to be alone
Teach the client and family about treatment, rehabilitation and prevention
Use simple clear and direct language
