Social support - Answers behaviors that, whether directly or indirectly, communicate to an individual
that she/he is valued, and care for by others
Coping - Answers the process of managing stressful situations and involves 2 efforts
Health self-efficacy - Answers the belief that one can manage their health successfully
- internal locus of control
Internal locus of control - Answers the perception that you control your own fate
external locus of control - Answers events are controlled mostly by outside forces
Dialectics - Answers the ongoing tension between coexisting, yet contradictory constructs
Crisis - Answers an occurrence that exceeds a person's normal coping ability
Normalcy - Answers the sense that things are comfortable, predictable, and familiar
Oversupport - Answers excessive and unnecessary help
(over helping, over informing, and overemphasizing)
palliative care - Answers supportive medical and nursing care that keeps the patient comfortable but
does not cure the disease
Euthanasia - Answers administration of a lethal agent for the purpose of relieving the patients
intolerable and incurable suffering (not legal in US)
Physician assisted suicide - Answers o doctor helps patient end life by providing drugs for self-
administration
Advanced care directives - Answers type of care to be permitted, or withheld, at the wishes of the
patient if they become too ill to communicate
Toxic positivity - Answers dismissing negative emotions and responding to distress with false
reassurances
Buffering hypothesis - Answers social support creates a buffer between the stress
Direct-effect model (main-effect) - Answers social support is beneficial, even when we are not
encountering a stressor
Social networking theory - Answers we experience strong ties with people whose social networks
overlap with ours a great deal
, Action facilitating - Answers performing tasks and collecting information; instrumental or informational
(COPING)
Nurturing - Answers building self-esteem, acknowledging and expressing emotions, and providing
companionship (COPING)
esteem support - Answers making someone feel competent and valued
emotional support - Answers efforts to acknowledge and understand what another person is feeling
social network support - Answers Family, friends, professionals, support groups, virtual communities,
and self-help literature.
the profile of the family caregiver - Answers 49 years old, 2/3rds women, 37% percent also have adult
children, drained their savings
The two end of life experiences perspectives - Answers Life at all costs - tied to failure/giving up
Death with dignity- withholding life sustaining treatment, palliative treatment, euthanasia, PAS
Legality of Euthanasia and PAS - Answers Euthanasia: physician kills - All states prohibit
PAS: physician helps - 6 states allow
eHealth - Answers the use of technology to transcend geographical distance in promoting good health
mHealth - Answers The use of mobile phones, tablets, or other wireless devices by patients to monitor
their health
Telehealth - Answers technology facilitates long-distance healthcare, education, administrative
teamwork, and disaster responses
Telemedicine - Answers a subset of telehealth that specifically involves offering clinical services to
patients at a distance, usually through the use of teleconference exams and shared diagnostic data, but
also via phone and computer mediated conversations
ePatients - Answers people with illness seeking information or help from the internet to make informed
health decisions
Information Sufficiency Threshold - Answers people tend to seek out information to help them cope and
understand their condition
digital divide - Answers differing access to computing devices and the Internet, based on socioeconomic,
geographic, or demographic characteristics