Psych Final Exam (Part 1/3)

What current illness symbolizes the worst fears about dying?

Cancer symbolizes the

Which of the following terms BEST describes the process of a person who questions, "Am I responsible for bringing this illness on myself?"

Corr's primary dimensions in coping with dying are physical, psychological, spiritual, and

Which statement best reflects the closed awareness context of family interactions in response to a life-threatening illness?

According to Glaser and Strauss, which of the following communication styles are used by families when a family member is diagnosed with a life-threatening illness?

Which of the following statements is an example of the open awareness context of family interactions in response to a life-threatening illness?

Mutual pretense, as a way of coping with painful circumstances such as a terminal illness

How many stages are associated with the model of coping with life-threatening illness presented by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross?

According to Kubler-Ross, all of the following are associated with a life-threatening illness EXCEPT:

In Kenneth Doka's "Tasks in Coping with Life-threatening Illness," which phase is characterized by living with the disease and managing symptoms and side effects?

According to Avery Weisman, the process of coping with a terminal illness can be divided into how many interrelated tasks?

According to Avery Weisman, coping with life threatening illness involves tasks of maintaining a sense of optimism and hope and confronting the problem and

The real estate wanted advertisement in the text is used to illustrate which of the following?

Which of the following are the three major psychological and behavioral patterns that individuals use in coping with the threat of death as identified by Therese Rando?

What is the aim of meaning-based coping?

The spreading of cancer to various parts of the body is known as

Metastasis is BEST defined as

A biopsy is BEST defined as

What is the oldest effective form of cancer therapy?

What is the oldest and most common form of cancer therapy?

Side effects experienced by patients receiving chemotherapy can include all of the following EXCEPT

The therapies included under complementary and alternative medicine are sometime referred to as

Bioenergetics, homeopathic medicine, and yoga are what form of cancer treatment option?

What is visualization

What is ikigai ryoho?

A psychotherapeutic technique used in Japan to assist cancer patients in finding meaning and living life to the fullest is known as

What is ethnomedicine?

What is the positive response to a treatment that a person believes to be an effective therapy?

Methods of treatment that the medical establishment considers unproved or potentially harmful are called

What term do Shupe and Hadden use to identify varied therapies such as "faith healing, supernatural healing, and folk healing?"

Which is the most common physical symptom in terminally ill patients?

What is now viewed as a "vital sign" that should be considered along with temperature, pulse, respiration and blood pressure?

What is now viewed as the "fifth vital sign?"

Chronic pain usually persists longer than

Which of the following statements about pain is true?

What is a critical first step in accessing and managing pain?

According to Yvette Colon of the American Pain Foundation, what is a critical first step in assessing and managing pain?

Which of the following statements regarding pain is NOT true?

Which of the following BEST describes a lingering dying trajectory?

A patient's "total pain" includes

What did Eric Cassell write about the social role of the dying patient?

Which of the following are spiritual needs of dying patients?

Often, the only task that matters in being with someone who is dying is to

Bereavement is defined as the

The emotional reaction and responses of anguish, anger, or relief to the death of a loved one are collectively termed

In addition to insomnia and changes in appetite, physical disturbance that occurs with grief typically includes

Which of the following are usually identified as physical symptoms of grief?

What is our "assumptive world?"

In contrast to the reaction to loss, what is the PROCESS by which a bereaved person integrates a loss into his or her ongoing life?

Wearing a black armband traditionally signifies

What is a way of signifying mourning among some Native Americans?

A theme common to mourning behaviors cross-culturally is that the bereaved

Whose model focuses on four tasks of mourning, including accepting the reality of the loss, processing the pain of grief, and finding an enduring connection with the deceased?

The concept of adjusting to a world without the deceased is associated with

Who is known for the paper "Mourning and Melancholia?"

Attachments and the processes by which we relinquish them were central concerns in the work of

The grief-work model has been widely accepted as the standard formulation for

Lyn Lofland suggests that some of the "ties that bind" us to one another are the roles we play, the help we receive and the

Telling the "story" of grief can help in coping with loss in which of the following ways?

Sharing the story of a loss provides emotional relief, promotes the search for meaning, and

In the dual-process model of coping, loss-oriented coping includes

What is an example of loss-oriented coping?

According to the dual-process model of coping, what coping behavior includes mastering tasks that had been taken care of by the deceased and developing a new identity?

According to Simon Shimson Rubin's Two-Track Model of Bereavement, which of the following considers quality of family relationships, health concerns, and investment in life tasks?

Which of the following typically occurs during the initial period of grief?

Which of the following typically occurs during the middle period of grief?

. Anniversaries, birthdays, special occasions, and holidays

According to Therese Rando, which of the following may especially complicate grief?

Complicated mourning is best described as

According to Neimeyer, Prigerson, and Davies, What is the "inability to reconstruct a meaningful personal reality" after loss?

The idea that one can die of a "broken heart"

Which term best describes the phenomena of death as a consequence of the stress of bereavement?

According to Edgar Jackson, what factors are especially important in a survivor's response to loss?

In the instrumental (linear) pattern of grieving, how is grief experienced and expressed?

In the intuitive (systemic) pattern of grieving, individuals experience and express grief

When a person experiences grief physically, as restlessness or mental activity, Terry Martin and Kenneth Doka would identify this pattern of grieving as

Which of the following is generally considered a high-grief death?

Of the following modes of death, which is most likely to be characterized as a low-grief death?

Factors that can restimulate grief for survivors of a homicide are termed

In the wake of multiple losses, survivors may feel they have "run out of tears," resulting in bereavement

Disenfranchised grief can be described as a

Grief experienced in connection with a loss that is not socially supported or acknowledged through the usual rituals is

Unfinished business is best described as

Unfinished business is a term that can relate to the

Which of the following is a helpful behavior when lending support to the bereaved?

Which of the following bereavement organizations focuses on supporting military families?

Which of the following statements best describes how bereavement is an opportunity for growth?

The psychosocial effects of war and murder lead to higher levels of

If a child believes that he or she may have played a role in the events leading to a death, what emotion might be expected to predominate?

Adolescents' (especially girls) responses to the September 11, 2001 terror attacks included

Of all the deaths that may be experienced in childhood, the most affecting is likely to be the death of a

A parent's death is perceived as a loss of security, affection and

Coping with the death of a parent may be complicated when the death results from

Coping may become complicated when the death of a parent results from

Children can experience "survivor's guilt" as young as

A sibling's death may represent which of the following?

According to David Balk, which of the following is most likely to cause adolescents to ask questions about the nature of life and death, about good and evil, and about the meaning of life?

To help them cope with disturbing thoughts and feelings, seriously ill children need

For a school-age child experiencing a serious illness, major issues include