PSYC 314 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Curative Care, Palliative Care, Midlife Crisis
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Infant mortality rate: different in various ses groups. Sudden infant death syndrome(sids). higher among aboriginal children. Cause is not entirely known but is suggested that sleeping position matters. After first year, external causes like vehicle accident, falling are high factors of death. Cancer(leukemia: stirkes the bone marrow. excessive white blood cells) 2nd cause of death in 1- 5-6: death is great sleep. curious rather than frightened, not realize that death is irreversible. 5-9: death is personified as shadowy figure, don"t have biological understanding. 9-10: understand the processes involved in death like burial and cremation. Death rate is low, but major cause are unintentional injuries(car accident) Because they are about to start real social life, when sentenced to terminal illness, they feel anger, injustice. Parents with young children grow concern for their offspring. Midlife crisis may also be affected by this fear of impending death. Might be better because don"t have to face gradual death and stress.
