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100 Cards in this Set
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What current illness symbolizes the worst fears about dying? |
Cancer |
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Cancer symbolizes the |
Worst fears of our age |
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Which of the following terms BEST describes the process of a person who questions, "Am I responsible for bringing this illness on myself?" |
Magical thinking |
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Corr's primary dimensions in coping with dying are physical, psychological, spiritual, and |
Social |
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Which statement best reflects the closed awareness context of family interactions in response to a life-threatening illness? |
The dying person is not aware of his or her impending death although others may know about it |
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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? |
1. Closed awareness 2. Open awareness 3. Mutual pretense |
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Which of the following statements is an example of the open awareness context of family interactions in response to a life-threatening illness? |
Death is acknowledged and discussed |
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Mutual pretense, as a way of coping with painful circumstances such as a terminal illness |
Can be a useful short-term strategy for coping with a painful situation |
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How many stages are associated with the model of coping with life-threatening illness presented by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross? |
Five |
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According to Kubler-Ross, all of the following are associated with a life-threatening illness EXCEPT: |
Belief |
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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? |
Chronic |
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According to Avery Weisman, the process of coping with a terminal illness can be divided into how many interrelated tasks? |
Three |
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According to Avery Weisman, coping with life threatening illness involves tasks of maintaining a sense of optimism and hope and confronting the problem and |
Revising one’s plans as necessary |
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The real estate wanted advertisement in the text is used to illustrate which of the following? |
Desires to accomplish plans that previously had been put off to be done in the future |
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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? |
1. Retreat and conservation of energy 3. Attempting to master or control the threat of death 4. Exclusion from the threat of death |
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What is the aim of meaning-based coping? |
To maintain a person’s sense of positive well-being |
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The spreading of cancer to various parts of the body is known as |
Metastasis |
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Metastasis is BEST defined as |
The spreading of cancer to various parts of your body |
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A biopsy is BEST defined as |
The surgical removal of a small amount of tissue for diagnosis |
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What is the oldest effective form of cancer therapy? |
Surgery |
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What is the oldest and most common form of cancer therapy? |
Surgery |
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Side effects experienced by patients receiving chemotherapy can include all of the following EXCEPT |
Cyanotic lymph nodes |
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The therapies included under complementary and alternative medicine are sometime referred to as |
Integrative medicine |
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Bioenergetics, homeopathic medicine, and yoga are what form of cancer treatment option? |
Complementary and alternative therapies |
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What is visualization |
The patient imagines the therapeutic agent inside the body helping to restore well-being |
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What is ikigai ryoho? |
A psychotherapy that helps people live fully and meaningfully |
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A psychotherapeutic technique used in Japan to assist cancer patients in finding meaning and living life to the fullest is known as |
Ikigai ryoho |
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What is ethnomedicine? |
Conventional biomedicine and folk beliefs |
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What is the positive response to a treatment that a person believes to be an effective therapy? |
Placebo effect |
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Methods of treatment that the medical establishment considers unproved or potentially harmful are called |
Unorthodox therapies |
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What term do Shupe and Hadden use to identify varied therapies such as "faith healing, supernatural healing, and folk healing?" |
Symbolic healing |
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Which is the most common physical symptom in terminally ill patients? |
Pain |
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What is now viewed as a "vital sign" that should be considered along with temperature, pulse, respiration and blood pressure? |
Pain |
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What is now viewed as the "fifth vital sign?" |
Pain |
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Chronic pain usually persists longer than |
Three to six months |
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Which of the following statements about pain is true? |
Responses to pain are culturally shaped |
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What is a critical first step in accessing and managing pain? |
Believing the pain is real |
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According to Yvette Colon of the American Pain Foundation, what is a critical first step in assessing and managing pain? |
Belief that pain is real |
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Which of the following statements regarding pain is NOT true? |
Patients with severe pain often obtain euphoric sensations from drugs. |
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Which of the following BEST describes a lingering dying trajectory? |
A patient dies from a progressive chronic illness |
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A patient's "total pain" includes |
1. psychological 3. social 4. spiritual |
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What did Eric Cassell write about the social role of the dying patient? |
The death of the body is a physical phenomenon whereas the passing of a person is nonphysical |
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Which of the following are spiritual needs of dying patients? |
1. Need for hope and creativity 3. Need to give and receive love 4. Need for meaning and purpose |
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Often, the only task that matters in being with someone who is dying is to |
Stay close and do nothing |
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Bereavement is defined as the |
Objective event of loss |
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The emotional reaction and responses of anguish, anger, or relief to the death of a loved one are collectively termed |
Grief |
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In addition to insomnia and changes in appetite, physical disturbance that occurs with grief typically includes |
Tightness of the throat |
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Which of the following are usually identified as physical symptoms of grief? |
1. Shortness of breath 2. Muscle weakness 3. Empty feeling in the abdomen |
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What is our "assumptive world?" |
The world we expect to be stable and reliable |
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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? |
Mourning |
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Wearing a black armband traditionally signifies |
A conventional mourning behavior |
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What is a way of signifying mourning among some Native Americans? |
Cutting one’s own hair short |
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A theme common to mourning behaviors cross-culturally is that the bereaved |
Are different and this difference diminishes with time |
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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? |
Worden |
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The concept of adjusting to a world without the deceased is associated with |
J. William Worden’s tasks of mourning |
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Who is known for the paper "Mourning and Melancholia?" |
Freud |
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Attachments and the processes by which we relinquish them were central concerns in the work of |
John Bowlby |
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The grief-work model has been widely accepted as the standard formulation for |
Understanding and helping people accommodate to loss |
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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 |
Wider network of others made available to us |
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Telling the "story" of grief can help in coping with loss in which of the following ways? |
1. Sharing the story provides emotional relief and promotes the search for meaning. 2. The story can be told without the constraint of having to conform to a particular model of how it should be. 3. The story brings people together in support of one another. |
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Sharing the story of a loss provides emotional relief, promotes the search for meaning, and |
Brings people together in support of one another |
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In the dual-process model of coping, loss-oriented coping includes |
Looking at old photographs |
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What is an example of loss-oriented coping? |
Looking at old photographs |
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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? |
Restoration-oriented |
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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? |
Track I: general biopsychosocial functioning |
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Which of the following typically occurs during the initial period of grief? |
Sense of confusion and disorganization |
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Which of the following typically occurs during the middle period of grief? |
Sadness and Longing |
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. Anniversaries, birthdays, special occasions, and holidays |
Can reawaken and reactivate unexpected feelings of grief |
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According to Therese Rando, which of the following may especially complicate grief? |
1. Death of a child. 2. Bereaved person's perceived lack of social support. 4. Bereaved's perception that the death was somehow preventable. |
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Complicated mourning is best described as |
Failure to realize the implication of loss |
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According to Neimeyer, Prigerson, and Davies, What is the "inability to reconstruct a meaningful personal reality" after loss? |
Complicated grief |
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The idea that one can die of a "broken heart" |
Is being investigated scientifically and is considered plausible |
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Which term best describes the phenomena of death as a consequence of the stress of bereavement? |
Broken heart |
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According to Edgar Jackson, what factors are especially important in a survivor's response to loss? |
Personality, social roles, values, and perception of the deceased’s importance |
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In the instrumental (linear) pattern of grieving, how is grief experienced and expressed? |
In restlessness or mental activity |
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In the intuitive (systemic) pattern of grieving, individuals experience and express grief |
Via feelings and emotions |
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When a person experiences grief physically, as restlessness or mental activity, Terry Martin and Kenneth Doka would identify this pattern of grieving as |
Instrumental |
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Which of the following is generally considered a high-grief death? |
The death of a teenager in a car accident |
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Of the following modes of death, which is most likely to be characterized as a low-grief death? |
Terminal illness of an elderly man |
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Factors that can restimulate grief for survivors of a homicide are termed |
Trigger events |
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In the wake of multiple losses, survivors may feel they have "run out of tears," resulting in bereavement |
Burnout |
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Disenfranchised grief can be described as a |
Consequence of lacking social support or acknowledgement of loss |
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Grief experienced in connection with a loss that is not socially supported or acknowledged through the usual rituals is |
Disenfranchised |
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Unfinished business is best described as |
Issues or “business” that goes on after death |
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Unfinished business is a term that can relate to the |
Plans and dreams that the bereaved had shared with the deceased |
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Which of the following is a helpful behavior when lending support to the bereaved? |
Simply listening without judgement |
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Which of the following bereavement organizations focuses on supporting military families? |
Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors |
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Which of the following statements best describes how bereavement is an opportunity for growth? |
Energy that was bound to the past is freed up |
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The psychosocial effects of war and murder lead to higher levels of |
Traumatic reactions |
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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? |
Guilt |
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Adolescents' (especially girls) responses to the September 11, 2001 terror attacks included |
Fear and concern about dying from other disasters |
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Of all the deaths that may be experienced in childhood, the most affecting is likely to be the death of a |
Parent |
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A parent's death is perceived as a loss of security, affection and |
Nurture |
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Coping with the death of a parent may be complicated when the death results from |
2. suicide.3. homicide. |
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Coping may become complicated when the death of a parent results from |
Homicide |
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Children can experience "survivor's guilt" as young as |
Four years old |
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A sibling's death may represent which of the following? |
1. Loss of playmate 3. Loss of caregiver 4. Loss of protector |
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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? |
Death of a sibling |
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To help them cope with disturbing thoughts and feelings, seriously ill children need |
Mental first aid |
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For a school-age child experiencing a serious illness, major issues include |
1. a sense of stigma. 2. impaired self-concept. 3. side effects of treatment. |