الفهرس 
الملخص العربى
Threats To Self-ConceptsOnly 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
The concept of body-image has been defined as the total conscious and unconscious feeling about body. Any person faced with chronic illness surgery loss of body part or disfigurement in the normal body state will undergo an alteration of body-image even if it is only a transient alteration. The loss of body part or disfigurements is reflected upon the patients role in society, her productivity, feeling of incompetence, feeling unloved or unapproved by significant others. These losses constitute a break in physical psychological and behavioural well-being A sudden drastic change in body-image due to hidden mutilation (in cases of mastectomy or hysterectomy or apparant mutilation (in cases of burn or amputation) they reflect a lot of changes these changes involve alterations in self-concepts manifestation of anxiety, as well as a symptomatic behavioural changes. These symptomatic changes may appear as physical symptoms obsessions, interpersonal sensitvity, depression, anxiety aggression, phobic anxiety, paranoid and schizoid behaviour, patients with alteration of body-image are not considered as psychiatric patients but normal patients with some temporary psycholofical disturbances and they need help.
Nursing is an interaction with human being, his family, and his social environment in relation to health. It deals with a holistic view of man. This study was aimed to identify the disabled conditions determining the level of self-concept among patients with disabling conditions.