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| The period of illness (or the period following injury) in which the primary concern of patient and medical personnel is the patient's survival |
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| Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis |
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| (or Lou's Gehrig's disease): An incurable, degenerative disease of the nervous system |
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| A psychological phenomenon in which the victim of an unfortunate event is held to blame for his or her experience |
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| Cardiac delirium or cardiac psychosis |
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| A condition in which some cardiac surgery patients experience transient intellectual deficits; others have gross impairment of their cognitive functioning and even hallucinations |
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| Conditions from which patients are not expected to recover |
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| A psychological defense mechanism in which one refuses to admit what has occurred; it can serve to help maintain the individual's identity and self-esteem, particularly in the face of negative reactions from other people. |
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| Feeling outside or separate from one's body |
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| The process of adjusting to physical alterations and adjusting to the new body image |
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| Spread (usually of cancer) to organs other than that of the primary site. Neoplastic cells escape from the initial tumor site and travel to other parts of the body such as the bones, lungs, brain, or liver |
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| Mental presentations and thoughts of being the target or persecution |
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| Negative emotional responses that can cause an individual to avoid certain stimuli |
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| The phase of illness during which the patient must learn to adjust to the limitations of illness and work and try to achieve as high a level of health and independent functioning as his or her condition makes possible. |
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| the forcing of emotion out of conscious awareness in an attempt to avoid immediate, short-term emotional distress. |
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| aid that one receives from others in coping; may be tangible or psychological in nature |
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| an illness from which a patient will not recover and that will result in the patient's death |
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| the mental rehearsal of potentially unpleasant events together with the consideration of what to expect in the future |
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| coping by setting goals but being flexible |
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| activities of daily living (ADL) |
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| activities that are carried out as a part of everyday life, such as getting up, walking, bathing, dressing, cooking, and eating. |
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| coping by setting goals and persistently pursuing them in an unaltered form; potentially problematic if continuing to strive unrealistically |
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| a respiratory condition marked by swelling of an spasm in the bronchial passages, making it difficult to expel carbon dioxide and take in oxygen |
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| impairment of deviation from normal physical structure and functioning that remains permanent; usually accompanied by residual disability |
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| an individual's extended family and close friends |
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| a disease that affects the nervous system, causing seizures that range from barely noticeable to severely incapacitating |
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| an individual's spouse and children |
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| an individual's parents (and step-parents) and siblings |
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| overgeneralization from an individual's actual limitations to additional expected limitations |
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| insulin dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) |
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| Type I diabetes; a chronic metabolic disorder. It affects about 150,000 children and their families and is treatable but not curable; it requires careful adherence to a complex treatment regimen |
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| a disease in which cellular changes in the brain and spinal cord disrupt proper nerve transmission; affects about 350,000 Americans. MS is a major cause of chronic disability in young adults. |
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| material essential to the synaptic transmission of nerve impulses; destruction of myelin such as in MS can cause neurological symptoms that are in some cases transient, in others chronic, and in others severely degenerative |
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| the process of hiding symptoms as much as possible so that they remain unnoticed by others. Sometimes arrangements to normalize must be ingenious and elaborate |
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| efforts by an ill or impaired individual to find ways to hide symptoms and limitations and to live a relatively independent life |
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| dialysis involves the process of cleansing the blood of impurities, a task carried out by the kidneys unless the have been damaged in some way. Peritoneal dialysis involves the installation of solution in the abdominal cavity overnight |
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| the process of rehearing various alternative plans and courses of action when faced with a life change stressful life event |
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| the process by which, when death is expected, a survivor begins the grieving process prior to the actual death of the loved one |
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| the fact of loss through death |
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| psychological, physical, or behavioral responses to bereavement |
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| the process of acting to hasten the death of a terminally ill individual, often someone who is suffering from severe pain |
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| the feeling or affective state associated with the condition of bereavement |
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| care that is meant to make the patient comfortable and pain-free (rather than to cure him or her) and seeks to provide psychological comfort to both patient and family |
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| fetal loss, even as early as 6 or 8 weeks or gestation, miscarriage can have a significant emotional impact on parents, involving diminishment of hope for a particular future and loss of a potential family member |
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| the social expression of grief |
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| the end of the grieving process |
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| death of a fetus in utero or during labor |
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| sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) |
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| also known as crib death; the most common cause of death in the first year of an infant's life after perinatal period; occurs in 2 or 3 babies per 1,000 in the US; peak incidence of death is 2 to 4 months of age. Babies with SIDS die in their sleep, with no forewarning, and no audible noise. |
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| the study of death and dying |
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