PSYC 3170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Infant Mortality, Family Therapy, Patient Education

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3170
• Professor: Krista Trobst

Document Summary

Serious and disabling chronic illness: causes, management, and coping. Adaptation refers to the process of making changes in order to adjust constructively to. Quality of life is the degree of excellence people appraise their lives to contain. Can help pinpoint which problems are likely to emerge for patients with. A defense mechanism by which people avoid implications of an illness. Avoiding in thinking about it and the implications abut it and feling of being overloaded with the thoughts o the illness. Patients become overwhelmed by potential changes in their lives and/or the prospect of death. When there is uncertainty involved then there is a greater impact. With each new thing people need to figure out the consequences and what adjustments they need to make. Sometimes a delayed reaction to chronic illness. Depression does not tend to happen immediately and it has different physiological. Has an impact on the overall prospects for rehabilitation or recovery.