QUIZ Chapter 6 Flashcards
A primary focus for understanding dying persons is that:
They are living human beings while they are dying
When a person is coping with stressful demands, such as those involved in dying, efforts to manage those demands need to be:
successful powerful antithetical masterful none of these
none of these
By focusing on coping skills and grouping them into three separate categories, Moos and Schaefer emphasized that _________.
coping as an ability can be taught
Which of the following is accurate in relationship to the analysis of coping in our book?
coping is learned behavior
“The Horse on the Dining-Room Table” (our Prologue) is an example of:
mutual pretense
The five-stage model developed by Kübler-Ross _________.
emphasizes psychosocial responses to illness
When used by a person with a life-threatening illness, denial can mean:
I am not ill
I am ill, but it is not serious
I am seriously ill, but not dying
I and dying, but death will not come for a long time
The language of “stages” in the Kübler-Ross model _________.
tends to suggest a linear progression
The task-based model examined in Chapter 6 focuses on four areas of task work; these are:
Physical, psychological, social, and spiritual
A dying person:
Often tends to reduce the number of persons with whom he or she wants to interact
