PSY 3101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mitigating Factor, Centrality, Libido

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3101
• Professor: Mary Theresa Howard

Document Summary

Satisfy body"s needs, minimize physical distress consistent with other values. Sustain, enhance significant interpersonal attachments; address social implications. Identify, develop & reaffirm sources of spiritual energy; foster hope. When people are dying they go through a series of tasks. Partial-death trajectory: we know we will die sometime in the future (cid:271)ut we do(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)ow whe(cid:374), no diagnosis yet. Actual-death trajectory: when you have been diagnosed with a terminal disease. 5 phases: pre-diagnostic, acute, chronic, recovery, terminal. There are tasks within each of the phases: physical, psychological, social, spiritual. Autonomy: maintaining the right to make your own decisions. Maintaining relationships, developing & following through with health-seeking strategies. Spiritual maintaining hope, how you feel about yourself. Maximize health, lifestyle, coping strengths; developing strategies re issues. Explore effect of diagnosis on sense of self & others. Spiritual ventilate feelings & fears; incorporate present diagnosis reality into past & future.