PSY 3101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Centrality, Unconditional Positive Regard, Mitigating Factor

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

Document Summary

Intervenion theories - bugen - focuses on survivors. Saisfy body"s need, minimize physical distress consistent w other values. E. g. autonomy (self-government) - person dying make informed choices, be cogniively able to. Sustain, enhance, signiicant interpersonal atachments; address social implicaions. E. g. relaionships, ppl dying don"t want to show the pain to loved ones. Idenify, develop, reairm sources of spiritual energy; foster hope. E. g. hope - dying people have right to maintain hope. When we ind out we are going to die. Broken down further phases, based on death anxiety. Told you"re going to die, then peak anxiety. If you take death anxiety go thru corr/task based theories your anxiety will go down or it"ll go up and down = disintegrated dying. Psycho - e. g. miss bus and you"ll be late. Social - e. g. physical, denist, taking care of yourself. Physical - pain, mobility aid, symptoms are here and lets treat them. Posiive aspects, negaive aspects, neutral aspects to three theories.