Exam 12: Terminal Illness and Bereavement

With respect to Corr's model for coping with dying, managing pain is to considering the meaning of one's life as _____ task is to ______ task.

Quick-trajectory deaths are particularly difficult for survivors.

The loss of a spouse elevates one's mortality by about ______ for the following decade.

John's partner, Mark, died. Mark's family never accepted John and Mark's relationship and have refused to allow John to participate in the funeral ceremony or to attend the wake. John is likely to experience ______ grief.

Morris has just been diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer. He refuses to believe the diagnosis and has seen several doctors who have confirmed it. Morris continues to insist that his diagnosis is impossible. Morris is in Kübler-Ross's stage of dying called ______.

Which is NOT an empirically supported therapeutic technique for coping with the loss of a loved one?

The intensity of grief following the death of a child is greater than that following the loss of a spouse or parent.

Create a box-and-arrow model depicting Kenneth Doka's phase-specific task model of coping with dying. Name each stage and identify its key features in a bullet point or two.

Research affirms that Kübler-Ross's sequence of stages is universal.

Exposure therapy is a worthwhile addition to cognitive-behavioral therapy for clients seeking professional help in coping with the loss of a loved one.

About 80% of Americans die in a hospital or in some other institutional setting.

A song called "Letting Go (And Moving On)" becomes popular on adult contemporary radio. Had this song been written by a health psychologist unconcerned with the scansion of lyrical lines, its title might be "______ Stressors (And ______ Stressors)."

More than 5,000 children die of cancer each year in the United States.

Hospice care ______.

The medical approach to managing terminal illness is to the biomedical model of health and illness as the ______ approach is to the biopsychosocial model.

Lamont and Christakis (2001) found that almost ______ of physicians caring for cancer patients said that they gave no estimate of survival time. Of those that did, ______ said their estimates were more optimistic than realistic.

Research on gay men who had lost their partners to AIDS suggests that finding meaning in a loved one's death can reduce one's mortality in the near- and intermediate term from about ______ to ______ or less.

Advance directives can help patients receive the type of treatment they prefer. For example, fully ______ of patients who requested only comfort care in their advance care directive receive it.

Myra Bluebond-Langner (1977) described five stages that terminally ill children pass through. Her model is based on the results of ______ research.

Thoughts of the loss of a loved one are BEST ______.