Exam 4: Health-Promoting Behaviors

Suppose you were working in a facility that provided care for terminally ill patients and their families.What psychosocial factors would be important for you to consider in training staff members? Why?

Explain the medical,social,and psychological factors associated with continuing treatment of a terminal illness.What options are now available to terminally ill patients and their families?

Mainstreaming children with leukemia

Death in the elderly is

As reproductive technology has improved over the past decade,the infant mortality rate for black infants has declined.

Studies of patient satisfaction and medical outcomes have clearly established that hospice care is superior to traditional terminal care.

argues that _______________ early on in adjustment to life-threatening illness is both normal and useful.

Cultural differences have been found in beliefs about:

The major cause of death in youths aged 15 to 24 is unintentional injury.

Terminally ill children

Describe Kübler-Ross's theory of dying.Evaluate the usefulness of her theory.

The death rate among middle-aged adults has declined largely because of a 60 percent drop in

In the first year of life,the main causes of death are

A living will outlines

,especially

Hospice care involves accepting death in a positive manner and assisted suicide.

Therapy with the dying differs from traditional psychotherapy in that it is likely to

The infant mortality rate in the United States

The depressed terminally ill patient may be

According to Turk and Feldman (1992a,1992b),the hospitalized terminally ill patient runs the risk of being