Endings (Ch. 20)

Question 1

A program committed to making the end of life as free from pain, anxiety, and depression as possible

Answer 1

Hospice

This program empasizes palliative care services

Question 2

Involves reducing pain and suffering and helping individuals die with dignity

Answer 2

Palliative Care

Question 3

Older adults are more likely to die from:

Answer 3

chronic ailments such as heart disease and cancer

Question 4

Which age group is likely to describe death in terms of darkness, light, transition, or nothingness?
They also develop religious and philosophical views about the nature of death and whether there is life after death (abstract thinking).

Answer 4

Adolescents

Question 5

Kubler-Ross suggests that there are these five stages to coping with dealth/dying:

Answer 5

1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4. Depression
5. Acceptance
   ((Acronym: “DAB DA”))

Question 6

Is the emotional numbness, disbelief, separation anxiety, despair, sadness, and loneliness that accompany the loss of someone we love.
A complex, evolving process with multiple dimensions.

Answer 6

Grief

Question 7

Feelings of despair remain unresolved over an extended period of time.
Even 6 months after their loss, some individuals have difficulty moving on with their lives and continue feeling numb or detached, believing their life is empty without the deceased, and feeling that the future has no meaning.

Answer 7

Prolonged Grief

Question 8

Describes an individual’s grief over a deceased person that is a socially ambiguous loss and can’t be openly mourned or supported.

Answer 8

Disenfranchised Grief

Question 9

Stressors focus on the deceased individual and can include grief work and both positive and negative reappraisals of the loss.
A positive reappraisal of the loss might include acknowledging that death brought relief at the end of suffering, whereas a negative reappraisal might involve yearning for the loved one and ruminating about the death.

Answer 9

Loss-oriented Stressors

part of dual-process model of coping

Question 10

Involves the secondary stressors that emerge as indirect outcomes of bereavement. They can include a changing identity (such as from “wife” to “widow”) and mastering specific skills (such as dealing with finances).

Answer 10

Restoration-Oriented Stressors

part of the dual-process model for coping