Create a box-and-arrow model depicting Kenneth Doka’s phase-specific task model of coping with dying. Name each stage and identify its key features in a bullet point or two.

What will be an ideal response?


The box-and-arrow model might look something like this:
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Bullet points for each stage might be included in or below the boxes. Examples might include:

(1) Prediagnosis

Experience symptoms

(2) Acute

Receive diagnosis

Come to terms with illness

(3) Chronic

Manage illness

(4) Terminal

If disease is terminal

Manage anxiety concerning recurrence

(5) Recovery

Come to terms with illness

Find meaning in life

Prepare for death

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