ERIC Number: EJ188484
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Publication Date: 1978
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Coping Styles of Patients with Life-Threatening Illness: A Literature Review
Shady, Gary
Essence: Issues in the Study of Ageing, Death and Dying, 2, 3, 149-54, 78
The literature consists of numerous references to coping styles of patients facing life-threatening illness, but the general consensus denotes the following as the predominant ones: denial, depression, anger, suicide, anxiety and fear reactions, psychosomatic compaining, schizoid-type and neurotic-type reactions, regression, dependency, and withdrawal. (Author)
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Language: English
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