PSYC 311 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Posttraumatic Growth
14 Jun 2016
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Because perceptions of health (central to qol) predict morbidity and mortality and adjustment and recovery from chronic illness. Inform decision makers about what would improve their qol instead of just prolonging their death. Use bodies more, learn new physical skills, learn how to control energy usage, read warnings of crisis. (many feel that the physical restrictions are even worse than the disorder itself) Aka post-traumatic growth = focusing on the positive effects if in illness improve social functioning, health, psyc adjustment to chronic illness. How do people react after being diagnosed with a chronic illness? a) denial b) anxiety c) depression. It"s protective in acute phase it detrimental in rehabilitation phase. What can be long-term reactions to chronic illness? depressed. What are possible selves ? vision of future self that motivates current goals. If its not threated, it motivates them to persevere. If it is threated, it makes them wish to return to past-self.
