Psychology 2036A/B Lecture 6: Tertiary intervention march 19th

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

Document Summary

Helping people cope with chronic and terminal illness. Chronic illness: long term illnesses with no effective cure. Part 2: challenges for chronically ill: specific illness-related challenges, symptoms of illness (ex. Accepting help for things they used to be able to do on their own or losing a job. Terminal illness: death and dying: except for denial (cid:523)which is only beneficial in short term the strategies involve (cid:498)active(cid:499) Browne avoid death (cid:498)we all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases(cid:499) Henry longfello denying death (cid:498)there is no death wheat seems so is transition(cid:499) Shakespear accept death (cid:498) death a necessary end will come in due time(cid:499: anxiety (the death anxiety scale designed to measure individual differences in experience of. Part 2: experience of dying: kubler-ross: the stages of dying (353-356, research based on interviews with 200 dying patients, stage 1: denial (not me!