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Peer reviewedLynn, Darcy – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 1995
Recounts personal experiences concerning art therapy as both a lymphoma patient and an artist. A few selections from two periods in the hospital illustrate physical and emotional pain. (JPS)
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Cancer, Diseases, Higher Education
Peer reviewedRange, Lillian M.; Alliston, Jerry R. – Death Studies, 1995
Undergraduates (n=296) read a fictional vignette concerning a person diagnosed with either terminal cancer or AIDS, and for varying lengths of time. Student reactions indicated that a person with AIDS is associated with greater stigma than a person with another fatal disease, regardless of how long ago the diagnosis was made. (JPS)
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Cancer, Clinical Diagnosis, Higher Education
Peer reviewedIngram, Ellen; Ellis, Jon B. – Death Studies, 1995
College students (n=228) completed a suicide ideation questionnaire and read one of 4 scenarios: cancer, AIDS, schizophrenia, and depression. People in the cancer and AIDS scenario were viewed as the most justified in committing suicide. Suicide ideators saw the people in the scenarios as justified in committing suicide more often than did…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Cancer, College Students, Depression (Psychology)
Download full textIngram, Ellen; Ellis, Jon B. – 1993
This study was conducted to investigate attitudes that people hold about a hypothetical suicide victim in different situations. These situations depicted the victim in a scenario as either having cancer, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), schizophrenia, or a depressive disorder. An analysis was made to discern whether there were…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Cancer, Chronic Illness, College Students
