Exam 6: Coping With Dying

Avery Weisman noted that coping involves more than an automatic response or a defensive reaction; it is, or at least can be, an active process. What does this mean? How does it relate to our discussion in Chapter 6?

"The Horse on the Dining-Room Table" (our Prologue)is an example of:

Doka argued that tasks in coping with life-threatening illnesses might differ in different contexts. He called these contexts "phases" and identified the main ones as:

Challenges facing those who are coping with dying may involve _________.

The most effective method of understanding the coping of a dying person is _________.

Explain the task-based model for coping with dying proposed by Charles Corr. What is its purpose and what are its components? To whom does it apply?

Northcott and Wilson have written "dying is a process; death is an event." What does that mean? What should it teach us?

According to Glaser and Strauss, dying trajectories _________.

When used by a person with a life-threatening illness, denial can mean:

Critics of the Kübler-Ross model have maintained that _________.

According to Moos and Schaefer's analysis of coping domains, cognitive avoidance or denial is an example of:

A task-based approach to coping with dying applies to _________.

People who are dying are _________.

Autonomy means _________.

Which of the following is correct?

According to Kübler-Ross, the one thing that usually persists throughout dying is _________.

A dying person who asks to leave the hospital in order to be at home with family members is most likely engaged in:

When a person is coping with stressful demands, such as those involved in dying, efforts to manage those demands need to be:

"Spiritual" tasks _________.

Define and briefly explain the meaning of the term "coping." Give one concrete example selected from your course work that illustrates this understanding of coping.