3b Death, dying, bereavement

Question 1

What are the five stages in Kubler-Ross’s stage theory of adjustment

Answer 1

1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Bargaining (feel guilt and its their responsibility)
4. Depression
5. Acceptance

Question 2

What are five myths about coping with loss (Wortman & Silver)?

Answer 2

• resolution state (grief is resolved in the end)
• recovery from grief
• working through stages of adjustment (sequentially)
• absence of distress is pathological
• distress is inevitable

Question 3

List the five dimensions of Illness Representations (Leventhal)

Answer 3

1) identify disease
2) Ideas about cause of disease
3) ideas about consequences of disease
4) time-frame of disease & treatment
5) curability (?)