PSY BEH 101D Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Life Review, Personal Fable, Congenital Disorder
23 Jan 2014
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Whites: males: 76 yrs, females: 81 yrs. African-americans: males: 69. 5 yrs, females: 76. 5 yrs. All races: males: 75 yrs, females: 80 yrs. Early childhood: unintentional injuries (ui); illness (heart, cancer, birth defects) Teen years: ui (car accidents), suicide and homicide. Early adulthood: ui, cancer, heart disease. Middle adulthood: cancer, heart disease, ui. Older adulthood: heart diseases, cancers, stroke. Elisabeth kubler-ross: stage theory of death and dying: denial & isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. Developed through interviews of dying people & their caregivers. Presently more than 10 million widows, 3 million widowers in the us. Only one quarter of widows remarry within 5 years of loss of spouse. Most widows remain single for the rest of their life, for an average of 19. 5 years. Widows and especially widowers have higher mortality. 10% to 20% are clinically depressed one year after death of spouse. Proposed by parkes and bowlby: numbness, yearning, disorganization & despair, reorganization.
