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CANAbb1 - Interventions for Clients Coping with Cancer Post Test

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1.1 What affects the magnitude of the stressor that cancer represents?
1.2 How can a cancer patient better able to meet the challenge of their sickness?
2.1 What are eight ways in the “Minimizing the Sense of Loss” technique?
2.2 What is one effective way for clients to retain a sense of self?
2.3 What may be one of the biggest losses a cancer patient may experience?
3.1 What luxury do client patients have compared to heart attack or stroke patients?
4.1 How may a client fight back against cancer?
4.2 What type of clients are the ones who most likely get better?
4.3 What is the first rule for clients with serious cancer?
5.1 What can you advise a cancer patient who thinks that doctors and nurses are the most important on his/her treatment team?
6.1 What are four questions you can ask the cancer patient?
6.2 After the first step in reforming, what does the client begin to replace his/her reaction with?
7.1 What is the myth about cancer?
7.2 What can a therapist do to help a cancer patient restore hope?
7.3 What did Dr. Frank Henker state about hope in cancer patients at an APA meeting?

Answers:

A. By maintaining family traditions and regular activities as much as possible
B. The more connected they are to family, faith communities, friends, and other groups
C. The client must make sure that he/she has a doctor, a hospital, and a treatment plan they feel confident in
D. Where the cancer is located, what stage it is in, and which treatment therapies have been proposed or are being implemented
E. Get a second opinion
F. Identify the tthat it is normal to have mood swings and more intense emotions than before his or her diagnosis, the therapist should encourage his/her clients to make themselves as physically comfortable as possible, spend as much time as possible with people who care, and client integrates his or her cancer experience into his or her life story
G. Luxury of time
H. Clients who are not intimidated by their disease
I. sense of lost hope and dreams for the future
J. A more realistic and appropriate response of acceptance
K. That the client is the most important in the team
L. That everyone with cancer dies because of the cancer
M. Discuss techniques for avoiding stress with the clients
N. How likely is it that what you are worried about will take place? Are you overreacting? Is there a more reasonable way for you to react? And is your reaction reasonable and rational? Have you found that asking your client these questions can bring about a more realistic perspective to a situation?
O. “Whether we acknowledge the influence of hope or not, it’s real, and it may even determine the life or death outcome of the patient.”

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Questions:

8.1 What is psychoneuroimmunology?
9.1 In future studies of the psychological aspects of cancer, what will researchers be paying more attention to?
10.1 According to Clifford, what did one-quarter of women use while navigating through the process of reconstruction?
11.1 What were women who elected not to have reconstructive surgery classified as?
12.1 What is one factor underlying the mind-body connection?
13.1 What did patients who participated in Logo Therapy experience?
14.1 What can be attained when pursuing creative goals and experiential values or reframing one’s attitude?
15.1 According to Cohen, what are present in the minds of patients during each cancer stage?
16.1 What is the states motto in “A Brave New World?”
17.1 What are different treatments in group psychotherapy?

Answers:

A. Denial or avoidance
B. A sense of meaning in part through transcendence
C. A stronger feeling of purposefulness and meaningfulness rather than controls
D. Sideliners
E. The discipline that studies the relationship between the mind and immune system
F. To age; sex; the type and stage of cancer; and the influence of social class, culture, and heredity
G. Community, identity, stability
H. The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis
I. Aychoeducation, cognitive-behavioral therapy, supportive-expressive therapy, psychodynamic
J. Feelings of hopelessness, helplessness, and fear of death