Doka Argued That Tasks in Coping with Life-Threatening Illnesses Might

question 23

Multiple Choice

Doka argued that tasks in coping with life-threatening illnesses might differ in different contexts. He called these contexts "phases" and identified the main ones as:

• A)Acute crisis, chronic living-dying, and terminal phases
• B)Denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance
• C)Prediagnostic, acute, chronic, recovery, and terminal phases
• D)Diagnostic, acute, degenerative, and terminal phases
• E)The metaphor of a "hive of affect"

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