PSYC 3170 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Coping With
20 Sep 2017
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Serious and disabling chronic illnesses: causes, management, and. Coping: adjusting to a chronic illness, initial reactions to having a chronic condition. The first reaction most individuals experience when a physician diagnoses a serious health problem is shock: being stunned or bewildered and behaving in an automatic and detached fashion. The shock may last only a short while or may continue for weeks: influences on coping with a health crisis. Cris theory: factors that influence how people adjust. Depends on illness related factors, background and personal factors, and physical and social environment factors. The greater the threat patients perceive for any of these circumstances, the more difficulty they are likely to have coping with their conditions. Patients also have difficulty coping with illness related factors that involve annoying or embarrassing changes in bodily functioning or that draw attention to their conditions.
