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A Death Awareness Workshop: Theory, Application and Results:
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In this paper, a death awareness workshop is described which is experimental in nature and based on Kubler-Ross' theory and exercises have been developed which parallel the five stages of acceptance of dying for terminally ill patients.Abstract:
A death awareness workshop is described which is experimental in nature and based on Kubler-Ross' theory [1]. Exercises have been developed which parallel the five stages of acceptance of dying for terminally ill patients. An encounter group format is utilized in order to facilitate group process. An approach which effectively integrated both the existential framework for this workshop and the behavioral techniques utilized is discussed. The research design testing the effectiveness of the workshop is presented. The effects of the workshop reveal cognitive and emotional changes indicating participants in the workshop to be moving towards an “acceptance of death.”read more
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The impact of death education
TL;DR: In this article, the impact of death education on affective outcomes was reviewed using meta-analytic procedures and it was found that experiential programs that focus on personal feelings about death were significantly more effective than didactic programs not containing such an emphasis.
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Reduction in death threat as a basis for optimal functioning
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors tested the hypothesis that a positive resolution of the issue of personal mortality enables a person to live a more intense, meaningful life and tested this hypothesis by inviting participation in selected death education experiences designed to produce more positive death orientation and higher levels of psychological functioning, where participants were 96 undergraduate psychology students who participated in a randomly assigned experience: completing a personal obituary, writing a farewell letter, or, for the control group, participating in a stress management experience.
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Changing death anxiety through death education in the public schools
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Group systematic desensitization and implosive therapy for death anxiety
TL;DR: Neither group desensitization nor group implosion was successful in reducing death anxiety of 48 nurses, and implications for future attempts to reduce death anxiety were discussed.
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The construction and validation of a Death Anxiety Scale.
TL;DR: The construction and validation of a Death Anxiety Scale and its application to clinical practice are described.
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Death Education and its Effect on the Death Anxiety Level of Nurses
TL;DR: The purpose of the present srudy was to determine the effect of a death education program for registered nurses upon their level of death anxiety, with analysis of the therapeutic ingredients being left for fume research.
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Death and dying workshop for nurses: its effect on their death anxiety level.
TL;DR: This author is concerned about what happens when the participant gets in touch with his feelings about death without time available to work them through, and whether this elicit or increase death anxiety.