Psychology 2036A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Terminal Illness, Posttraumatic Growth, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2036A/B
• Professor: Doug Hazelwood

Document Summary

Helping people cope with chronic and terminal illness. Exam: monday april 23rd; 2 -4 in natural science. Large table in ch 12 not tested on. Will i: disorientation & feeling of being overwhelmed cant think straight, long term illnesses that have no effective cure, cancer, stroke, heart attack. Tertiary intervention march 19th self esteem pg 315-318, may have to accept help, give up job, give up hobby etc can. Interlude: the death anxiety scale not tested on just a test in class that we did moderate anxiety about death. Tertiary intervention march 19th (cid:498)we all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases(cid:499) r. (cid:498)there is no death! What seems so is transition(cid:499) henry longfellow (cid:498) death, a necessary end, will come when it will come(cid:499) shakespeare: suggesting we should accept death, suggesting we should deny death, suggesting that we avoid death.