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Adistie, Fanny; Lumbantobing, Valentina B. M.; Maryam, Nenden Nur Asriyani – Child Care in Practice, 2020
Purpose: The response of each child to terminal illness treatment is highly individual. This will certainly affect the level and type of perceived needs. This study is conducted to examine the needs of children with terminal illness from the perspective of nurses and parents. Method: A qualitative descriptive study was conducted in this research.…
Descriptors: Children, Terminal Illness, Nurses, Parent Attitudes
Sparks, Sarah D. – Education Week, 2012
The stress of a spelling bee or a challenging science project can enhance a student's focus and promote learning. But the stress of a dysfunctional or unstable home life can poison a child's cognitive ability for a lifetime, according to new research. Those studies show that stress forms the link between childhood adversity and poor academic…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Stress Variables, Family Life, Negative Attitudes
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Waldrop, Deborah P. – Health & Social Work, 2007
Caregivers experience multiple losses during the downhill trajectory of a loved one's terminal illness. Using mixed methods, this two-stage study explored caregiver grief during a terminal illness and after the care recipient's death. Caregiver grief was a state of heightened responsiveness during end-stage care: anxiety, hostility, depression,…
Descriptors: Social Environment, Caregivers, Terminal Illness, Sleep
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Cochrane, Joyce B.; And Others – Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 1991
Examined relationships among death anxiety, disclosure behaviors, and attitudes toward terminal care of 99 oncologists. Found death anxiety scores lower for oncologists than typically reported for physicians. Short-term repeated exposure to dying patients resulted in comfort with dying patients whereas long-term repeated exposure resulted in…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Cancer, Death, Disclosure
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Olden, Megan; Rosenfeld, Barry; Pessin, Hayley; Breitbart, William – Assessment, 2009
Depression at the end of life is a common mental health issue with serious implications for quality of life and decision making. This study investigated the reliability and validity of one of the most frequently used measures of depression, the Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAM-D) in 422 patients with terminal cancer admitted to a palliative…
Descriptors: Quality of Life, Validity, Suicide, Rating Scales
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Manis, Amie A.; Bodenhorn, Nancy – Counseling and Values, 2006
This article presents a review of the literature on counseling adults with terminal illness, particularly the literature on the nature of preparation that counselors and other professionals who attend to the needs of adults with a terminal illness require. The authors review information and findings from philosophical, psychological, practical,…
Descriptors: Terminal Illness, Adults, Counseling Techniques, Literature Reviews
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Smith, Elizabeth D. – Social Work, 1995
Presents a model of transpersonal intervention that social work clinicians can use when working with terminally-ill clients. Model assumes that individuals possess a level of transpersonal development, with related dimensions of spiritual awareness and personal death perspective; the degree of interrelatedness of these two dimensions influences…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Bereavement, Coping, Death
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Hayslip, Bert, Jr.; And Others – Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 1992
Administered measures of overt and covert fear of death to 20 healthy men and 13 men diagnosed with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). Groups did not differ significantly on overt measure; AIDS group had higher total scores on covert measure. Findings suggest that one's life trajectory is redefined when the diagnosis of terminal illness…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Anxiety, College Students, Coping
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Viney, Linda L.; And Others – Omega: Journal of Death and Dying, 1994
Compared palliative care staff with staff from burn and neonatal units and with mature age general nursing trainees at end of training. Found that palliative care staff expressed better quality of life, in terms of significantly less anxiety and depression, as well as more good feelings than other staff groups. (Author/NB)
Descriptors: Anxiety, Death, Depression (Psychology), Foreign Countries
White, Jerre Lee – 1993
This paper reviews research literature pertaining to the pain and anxiety associated with pediatric cancer and the use of hypnosis as an adjunct treatment. It is noted that pain and anxiety are most often associated with the procedural treatment of cancer, and that the literature suggests that both pain and anxiety are multi-faceted constructs.…
Descriptors: Anxiety, Cancer, Children, Chronic Illness
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Kiemle, Gundi – British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 1994
Discusses supervision and counseling of people with AIDS. Addresses the impact upon the client and the counselor against the background of stigmatization. Conflicts and losses arising at different stages are explored. Discusses implications for the need for supervision to facilitate changes necessary to cope with clients' and counselors' feelings…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Adults, Anxiety, Counseling Psychology