Denial (Psychology)
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Supporting children of parents who are dying.

29 Nov 2009 Nurses, parents and other family members tend to feel ill equipped when talking to children about a parent's impending death. Adults often feel the need to protect children from the reality of a parent's imminent death. However, research indicates ... Read more...

Understanding and working with the concept of denial and its role as a coping strategy.

30 Jul 2009 We are psychological therapists working as part of a specialist palliative care team, and receive referrals for patients who are psychologically distressed and frequently described as being 'in denial'. In this article, we explain what denial is and ... Read more...

Denial and acceptance coping styles and medication adherence in schizophrenia.

30 Jul 2009 Antipsychotics are often the first line of treatment for individuals with schizophrenia (). One challenge to effective treatment is lack of adherence to prescribed medication. Lower rates of adherence are associated with considerably higher rates of ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Denial (Psychology)'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Supporting children of parents who are dying. 29 Nov 2009
• Lovenox hurts. 18 Oct 2009
• Some thoughts on denial of mental illness. 30 Aug 2009
• Human uniqueness and the denial of death. 4 Aug 2009
• Understanding and working with the concept of denial and its role as a coping strategy. 30 Jul 2009
• Denial and acceptance coping styles and medication adherence in schizophrenia. 30 Jul 2009
• Justice after AIDS denialism: should there be prosecutions and compensation? 30 Jul 2009
• Lack of relationship between psychological denial and unawareness of illness in schizophrenia-spectrum disorders. 15 Jul 2009
• Culture and depression: a case example of a young African American man. 29 Jun 2009
• [The case of Veronique Courjault - infanticide and placement of the bodies in the freezer (2)] 29 Jun 2009
• Barriers to seeking help for gambling problems: a review of the empirical literature. 22 Jun 2009
• [The case of Veronique Courjault - infanticide and placement of the bodies in the freezer] 15 Jun 2009
• [Communication in the situation of a difficult diagnosis disclosure] 30 May 2009
• [A word, but not yet reality] 30 May 2009
• [Handicap disclosure in a brain injured person] 30 May 2009
• Implicit measurement of sexual associations in child sex abusers: role of victim type and denial. 30 May 2009
• When cancerophobia and denial lead to death. 30 May 2009
• Dying in public. 30 May 2009
• The lived experience of alopecia areata: a qualitative study. 3 May 2009
• Doubts, denial and divine intervention: understanding delayed attendance and poor retention rates at a HIV treatment programme in rural Tanzania. 29 Apr 2009

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Technical information about 'Denial (Psychology)'

Definition: Refusal to admit the truth or reality of a situation or experience.

Descriptor UI: D003717

Alternative terms: Denial (Psychology); Denials (Psychology); Denial;

Tree Number: F01.393.200;

History Note: 75

Technical Notes: no qualif; DF: DENIAL