Student Study Guide for use with The Last Dance

by Despelder, Lynne Ann; Strickland, Albert Lee

• ISBN13: 9780767429801
• ISBN10: 076742980X
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-24
• Publisher: MCG

Table of Contents

Preface: Using Your Study Guide	xi
PART I: INTRODUCTION
Getting Acquainted with Your Text: A Self-Guided Tour	1	(4)
Death and Dying on the Web: Evaluating and Using Internet Resources	5	(10)
Evaluating Internet Resources	9	(6)
Examining Your Attitudes and Experiences	15	(8)
Questionnaire: You and Death	16	(7)
Writing Your Deathography	23	(8)
Childhood Loss Memories	25	(2)
Questionnaire: Loss Inventory	27	(2)
Deathography Reading Assignment	29	(2)
PART II: CHAPTER RESOURCES
Attitudes Toward Death: A Climate of Change	31	(16)
Chapter Summary	31	(1)
Objectives	32	(1)
Key Terms and Concepts	32	(1)
Questions for Guided Study and Review	33	(1)
Practice Test Questions	34	(1)
Related Readings	35	(1)
Major Points in This Chapter	36	(1)
Observations and Reflections	37	(10)
Humor and Death: Cartoons	39	(2)
Humor and Death: Jokes	41	(2)
Music and Death	43	(2)
Corporate Response to Death, Dying, and Bereavement: The Airlines	45	(2)
Perspectives on Death: Cross-Cutural and Historical	47	(12)
Chapter Summary	47	(1)
Objectives	48	(1)
Key Terms and Concepts	48	(1)
Questions for Guided Study and Review	49	(1)
Practice Test Questions	49	(2)
Related Readings	51	(1)
Major Points in This Chapter	52	(1)
Observations and Reflections	52	(7)
Death Customs	55	(2)
Cultural Diversity: Internet Exercise	57	(2)
Learning About Death: The Influence of Sociocultural Forces	59	(16)
Chapter Summary	59	(1)
Objectives	60	(1)
Key Terms and Concepts	61	(1)
Questions for Guided Study and Review	61	(1)
Practice Test Questions	62	(1)
Related Readings	63	(1)
Major Points in This Chapter	64	(1)
Observations and Reflections	65	(10)
Questionnaire: You and Death	68	(1)
A Mature Concept of Death	69	(2)
Television as Teacher	71	(4)
Health Care Systems: Patients, Staff, and Institutions	75	(14)
Chapter Summary	75	(1)
Objectives	76	(1)
Key Terms and Concepts	77	(1)
Questions for Guided Study and Review	77	(1)
Practice Test Questions	78	(1)
Related Readings	79	(1)
Major Points in This Chapter	80	(1)
Observations and Reflections	81	(8)
Health Care Dramas: Television and the Terminally III	83	(2)
Home Care	85	(2)
Creating a Hospice	87	(2)
Facing Death: Living with Life-Threatening Illness	89	(16)
Chapter Summary	89	(2)
Objectives	91	(1)
Key Terms and Concepts	91	(1)
Questions for Guided Study and Review	91	(1)
Practice Test Questions	92	(2)
Related Readings	94	(1)
Major Points in This Chapter	95	(1)
Observations and Reflections	96	(9)
Death Fears	97	(2)
Questionnaire: Life-Threatening Illness	99	(1)
Signs and Symptoms Near Death	100	(5)
Medical Ethics: Dying in a Technological Age	105	(14)
Chapter Summary	105	(3)
Objectives	108	(1)
Key Terms and Concepts	108	(1)
Questions for Guided Study and Review	109	(1)
Practice Test Questions	110	(1)
Related Readings	111	(1)
Major Points in This Chapter	112	(1)
Observations and Reflections	113	(6)
End-of-Life Issues: Withdrawing Life Support	115	(2)
Final Wishes	117	(2)
Survivors: Understanding the Experience of Loss	119	(14)
Chapter Summary	119	(1)
Objectives	120	(1)
Key Terms and Concepts	121	(1)
Questions for Guided Study and Review	121	(1)
Practice Test Questions	122	(2)
Related Readings	124	(1)
Major Points in This Chapter	125	(1)
Observations and Reflections	126	(7)
The 5L Model for Companioning the Bereaved	127	(2)
Survivor Interview	129	(2)
Internet Survivor Support	131	(2)
Last Rites: Funerals and Body Disposition	133	(16)
Chapter Summary	133	(1)
Objectives	134	(1)
Key Terms and Concepts	135	(1)
Questions for Guided Study and Review	135	(1)
Practice Test Questions	136	(1)
Related Readings	137	(1)
Major Points in This Chapter	138	(1)
Observations and Reflections	139	(10)
Creating a Funeral Home	141	(2)
Questionnaire: Funeral Planning	143	(2)
Underground Humor	145	(2)
Interview with a Funeral Director	147	(2)
The Law and Death	149	(18)
Chapter Summary	149	(2)
Objectives	151	(1)
Key Terms and Concepts	151	(1)
Questions for Guided Study and Review	151	(1)
Practice Test Questions	152	(2)
Related Readings	154	(1)
Major Points in This Chapter	154	(1)
Observations and Reflections	155	(12)
Attorney Interview	157	(4)
Internet: Advanced Directives	161	(2)
Physician-Assisted Suicide (PAS)	163	(2)
Death Certificate	165	(2)
Death in the Lives of Children and Adolescents	167	(20)
Chapter Summary	167	(2)
Objectives	169	(1)
Key Terms and Concepts	169	(1)
Questions for Guided Study and Review	169	(1)
Practice Test Questions	170	(2)
Related Readings	172	(1)
Major Points in This Chapter	173	(1)
Observations and Reflections	174	(13)
Explaining Death to Children: An Example from the Popular Press	175	(2)
Review Questions for The Bog	177	(2)
Factors and Variables that Influence Grief Reactions in Children	179	(4)
Tools for Helping Bereaved Children	183	(2)
Internet Sites for Kids	185	(2)
Death in the Lives of Adults	187	(16)
Chapter Summary	187	(1)
Objectives	188	(1)
Key Terms and Concepts	189	(1)
Questions for Guided Study and Review	189	(1)
Practice Test Questions	190	(2)
Related Readings	192	(1)
Major Points in This Chapter	193	(1)
Observations and Reflections	194	(9)
For an Adult Who Had a Parent Die in Childhood or Adolescence: An Assessment	195	(4)
Children and Life-Threatening Illness: Internet Support	199	(2)
Death of a Child: Internet Support	201	(2)
Suicide	203	(10)
Chapter Summary	203	(2)
Objectives	205	(1)
Key Terms and Concepts	205	(1)
Questions for Guided Study and Review	205	(2)
Practice Test Questions	207	(1)
Related Readings	208	(1)
Major Points in This Chapter	209	(1)
Observations and Reflections	210	(3)
Suicidal Behavior	211	(1)
Suicidal Tendencies	212	(1)
Risks of Death in the Modern World	213	(16)
Chapter Summary	213	(3)
Objectives	216	(1)
Key Terms and Concepts	216	(1)
Questions for Guided Study and Review	216	(2)
Practice Test Questions	218	(1)
Related Readings	219	(2)
Major Points in This Chapter	221	(1)
Observations and Reflections	222	(7)
Movies and War	223	(2)
Violence and Your Environment	225	(2)
Violent Death and Children's Attitudes	227	(2)
Beyond Death/After Life	229	(16)
Chapter Summary	229	(1)
Objectives	230	(1)
Key Terms and Concepts	230	(1)
Questions for Guided Study and Review	231	(1)
Practice Test Questions	232	(1)
Related Readings	233	(1)
Major Points in This Chapter	234	(1)
Observations and Reflections	235	(10)
Beliefs and How They Serve	237	(2)
Near-Death Experiences	239	(2)
Religious Traditions	241	(2)
Internet Beliefnet	243	(2)
The Path Ahead: Personal and Social Choices	245	(36)
Chapter Summary	245	(1)
Objectives	246	(1)
Key Terms and Concepts	246	(1)
Questions for Guided Study and Review	247	(1)
Practice Test Questions	247	(2)
Related Readings	249	(1)
Major Points in This Chapter	249	(1)
Observations and Reflections	250	(11)
Death in the Future	251	(2)
Death Predictions	253	(2)
Influence of the Pioneers	255	(2)
Create Your Own Activities	257	(2)
Postscript and Farewell	259	(2)
PART III: RESOURCES FOR LEARNING AND WRITING ABOUT DEATH AND DYING
Reading a Journal Article	261	(4)
Writing a Research Paper	265	(2)
Organizations and Internet Resources	267	(14)
PART IV: APPENDIX
Answer to Practice Test Questions	281