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Health psychology exam flashcards covering end-of-life care, mourning stages, and chronic illness for college students.
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Health Psychology Final Exam Flashcards

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This 64-card flashcard set covers core topics in health psychology, including end-of-life care and hospice, the five stages of death and mourning, living wills and physician-assisted suicide, patient-provider relationships, adherence and hospitalization, chronic illnesses, and coping strategies for serious diseases. Designed for college-level exam preparation in health psychology courses.

Subject:
Science
Topic:
Health & Nutrition
Grade Level:
College
Updated December 2025

Terms in This Set

  • end- of life care
  • hospice care
  • psychological issues with death
  • Stages of Death - #1
  • Stages of Death - #2
  • Stages of Death - #3
  • Stages of Death - #4
  • Stages of Death #5 -
  • Children's Understanding of Death - 3-5
  • Children’s Understanding of Death - 6-8
  • Children's Understanding of Death - 9-10
  • PA Assisted Suicide form
  • Pros of PA Assisted Suicide
  • what % of Americans Support PA Assisted Suicide?
  • Cons of PA Assisted Suicide
  • Living Wills/ Advance Care Directives
  • Issues with Living Wills/ Advance Care Directives
  • Stages of mourning (1)
  • Stages of mourning (2)
  • Stages of Mourning (3)
  • Stages of Mourning (4) (1)
  • Stages of Mourning (4) (2)
  • Dual Process of Coping with Bereavement
  • Harmful Coping of Death
  • Janoff Bulman’s Theory
  • Janoff Bulman’s Theory: After Traumatic Event
  • Problems with U.S. health care
  • Ways to fix U.S. health care
  • Appraisal Delay
  • Illness Delay
  • Behavioral Delay
  • Scheduling Delay
  • Treatment Delay
  • Factors that affect how quickly we seek medical care
  • Actively - Passively
  • Guidance Cooperation
  • What is the most common model of PT and practitioner interactions?
  • Mutual Participation
  • When is Mutual Participation most commonly used?
  • MD Issues
  • PT Issues
  • What to do - MD
  • What to do - PT
  • Unintentional Non-Adherence
  • Intentional Non-Adherence
  • Psychological Effects of Hospitalization
  • What can MD do to minimize Psychological Effects of Hospitalization
  • What % of U.S. has a Chronic Illness?
  • Physical Effects of CI
  • Social Effects of CI
  • Psychological Effects of CI
  • What % of Individuals with a CI are Depressed?
  • Self-Concept Effects of CI
  • How to help CI Individual
  • Heart Disease
  • Myocardium
  • Atherosclerosis
  • Aterosclerosis
  • CHS Help
  • cancer is ---- cause of death
  • Cancer
  • Malign Growth Metastases
  • Cancer Social Support
  • Coping Strategies for Cancer

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