Chapter 8 - Final

Question 1

Palliative Care - def

Answer 1

clinical approach designed to improve the quality of life for clients and families coping with a life threatening illness.

Question 2

Grief - def

Answer 2

describes the personal emotions and adaptive process a person goes through in recovering from loss.

Question 3

Acute grief - def

Answer 3

occurs as “somatic distress that occurs in waves with feelings of tightness in the throat, shortness of breath, an empty feeling in the abdomen, a sense of heaviness and lack of muscular power, etc….

Question 4

Anticipatory Grief - def

Answer 4

emotional response that comes before the actual death

Question 5

Chronic sorrow - def

Answer 5

form of grief - while the other person is alive. Could be a disabled person?

Question 6

Complicated grieving - def

Answer 6

represents a form of grief distinguished by being unusually intense, significantly longer in duration.

Question 7

End of life decision making - what is it?

Answer 7

Making decisions for the end of life.