1. Heart Disease, Stroke, Cancer, & AIDS Dr. A. H. Teich Chapter 14

2. Coping With and Adapting to High ‑ mortality Illness  Adapting mortality activities helplessness cognitive adjustments

3. Heart Disease  Who Is at Risk of Heart Disease? Why? Age, Gender, and Sociocultural Risk Factors Lifestyle and Biological Risk Factors  Initial Treatment Medication Balloon angioplasty Bypass surgery

4. Rehabilitation for Cardiac Patients  Information  Exercise  Smoking  Stress management

5. The Psychosocial Impact of Heart Disease  Affect ability to work  Family problems  Interventions

6. Stroke  Lifestyle Risk Factors  Biological Risk Factors

7. Cancer  Types carcinomas lymphomas sarcomas leukemias  Diagnosis  Treatment

8. Cancer: Psychosocial Issues  Fears of recurrence  Emotional difficulties  Psychosocial treatment

9. AIDS  Risk factors  Diagnosis  Treatment

10. The Psychosocial Aspects of AIDS  AIDS patients Ostracized and stigmatized Irrationality about AIDS Depression and suicide  Treatment

11. Adapting to a Terminal Illness  Patient's age Terminally Ill Child Terminally ill young adults Terminal illness in middle-aged and older adults  How people cope with terminal illness

12. Kubler-Ross  Five stages : Denial Anger Bargaining Depression Acceptance

13. The Quality of Life in Death  Care of dying patients Palliative Tx Emotional distance