Death Anxiety |
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This presentation created by Cam Been will help you understand what anxiety is and what specifically death anxiety is. The audience should also be able to understand causes of death anxiety in humans or things that may put a person at higher risk of suffering from an excessive amount of death anxiety. Next, the audience should learn the impact that death anxiety has on a person. Finally, the audience should understand that since we are all human beings, anxiety about how we die and death itself applies to all.
Resources: Talk to your therapist or physician if you are concerned about death anxiety interfering with your daily life! Anxiety and Depression Association of America https://adaa.org/learn-from-us/from-the-experts/podcasts/death-anxiety List of current Death Education programs with links https://www.adec.org/page/Pre_approved_Program Why we need to talk about death https://www.healthline.com/health/death-anxiety-talk-about-grieving#1 Hotline for Grief counseling https://griefresourcenetwork.com/crisis-center/hotlines/ References: Anxiety (2020). American Psychological Association. Cavanaugh, J.C. & Blanchard-Fields, F. (2017). Adult Development and Aging 8th edition). 380-382. Cohut, M. (2017). Death anxiety: the fear that drives us? Medical News Today. ”Emma Stone terrified of death”. (2012). Express Newspapers. Hoelterhoff, M. & Chung, M.C. (2017). Death anxiety resilience: a mixed methods investigation. Psychiatric Quarterly. 635-638. Lyke, J. (2013). Associations among aspects of meaning of life and death anxiety in young adults. Death Studies. 472-480. Sharma, P., Asthana, H.S., Gambhir, I.S., Ranjan, J.K. (2019). Death anxiety and psychological wellbeing of institutionalized elderly. Indian Journal of Gerontology. 241-244. |