1
Q
What is a crisis?
A
- “an unstable or crucial time or state of affairs whose outcome will make a decisive difference for better or for worse.”
- not necessarily negative experience
- personal growth
2
Q
What are four different types of “stories” people tell?
A
- Signature stories (easy ones that they talk about, not as important)
- Public vs. Private/Surface vs. Deep
- Secret stories (something not shared with many, come out in times of crisis)
- Untold stories
3
Q
How do people relate to patients and families dealing with a life-threatening illness?
A
- Cognitive Empathy
- with cultural component
- Affective Empathy
4
Q
What is the “Iceberg Theory”?
A
- What you see is not always the whole story
- not always obvious
- only what you see on the outside
- elective vs. non-elective
5
Q
What are “Family Mobiles”?
A
- The most important people in your life on a mobile
- many strings with people
- sometimes person gets smaller
- death
- crisis
6
Q
What are the two fundamental questions associated with a life-threatening illness?
A
- “What is wrong with me?”
- “What will happen to me?”
7
Q
What are four different types of “losses”? What are their impact on the patient/family?
A
- Loss of possessions
- Loss of self
- Developmental loss
- Loss of significant others
8
Q
What is the importance of utilizing a person’s “lifeline” as an assessment tool?
A
- Period of Impact - Diagnosis
- anticipatory mourning
- advance health care planning
- make plans
- The Battle
- window of opportunity
- window of rituals
- meaning of life
- Period of Defeat
- acknowledge death
- visualize life after death
9
Q
What are various factors that have an impact on a person, and his or her family as they deal with a life-threatening illness?
A
- Advanced Health Care Directive
- Power of Attorney
- Estate planning
- Gift giving
- Funeral “pre-planning”
- rituals, service
- Companion animal
- Organ donation/tissue donation
