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GERIATRIC STAFF ATTITUDES TOWARD DEATH *
Author(s) -
Kazzaz David S.,
Vickers Raymond
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
journal of the american geriatrics society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.992
H-Index - 232
eISSN - 1532-5415
pISSN - 0002-8614
DOI - 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1968.tb02779.x
Subject(s) - denial , medicine , feeling , attendance , psychodrama , resistance (ecology) , nursing staff , subject (documents) , nursing , psychiatry , psychotherapist , social psychology , psychology , ecology , library science , computer science , economics , biology , economic growth
A bstract Multiple educational approaches to the subject of hospital staff attitudes toward death were tested. It was not known which approaches, if any, would work, and it is still not known if one is better than another. The staff's resistance to discussing the topic of death seemed connected with a culturally‐induced denial. Attempts to promote academic discussion failed. Not until situations occurred which provoked emotional involvement—an actual death, the staging of psychodrama involving death, seminars on religion and psychiatry, and attendance at an autopsy—could the staff members begin to understand their own feelings and open the way for true communication with their patients.