[PSYCO223] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (96 pages long!)

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCO223
• Professor: Lisa Smithson

Document Summary

Anorexia-cachexia syndrome: loss of appetite and muscle atrophy. Period of emotional and spiritual growth (accept what is happening) Involvement in religion: more extensive social network. Death ethos: philosophy of death that dominates a society, look at cultural practices, how we treat dying, belief of afterlife. Fear of not existing, seen as a dying person in nursing home not an individual (social death) Tmt: panic and dread, defense mechanisms for anxiety, death with dignity. Making their own decisions of type of death, place, duration of care. Stages of duing in hubler-ross: denial, anger (cheated/robbed, bargaining (deals with god, ill be a better person, depression (loss, when realize death is inevitable, acceptance (can talk openly about death) Stages are supported by research, set the stage for better treatment of dying. Tages are(cid:374)"t rigid, ig(cid:374)ored other e(cid:373)otio(cid:374)s people e(cid:454)perie(cid:374)ce (cid:449)he(cid:374) d(cid:455)i(cid:374)g. Only from interviews: death with dignity and the (cid:862)good death(cid:863, death is a process.