AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -In Poland she visited the Maidanek concentration camp and was deeply affected by the carvings of butterflies on the walls, believed to have been done by prisoners facing death, and it is believed that this influenced her later attitudes to end of life care.

Detailed explanation-2: -A Swiss American psychiatrist and pioneer of studies on dying people, Kübler-Ross wrote “On Death and Dying, ” the 1969 book in which she proposed the patient-focused, death-adjustment pattern, the “Five Stages of Grief.” Those stages are denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance.

Detailed explanation-3: -Gradually, the medical profession adopted new methods of treating patients at the end of life. Kübler-Ross also helped bring attention to the hospice movement and was instrumental in the acceptance of palliative care for the terminally ill.

Detailed explanation-4: -She published her groundbreaking book, On Death and Dying, based on her years of research and work, in 1969. The book introduced the well-known five stages of grief that are widely used today to help people cope with death. Her support of the dying led her to rally behind the national hospice care organization.

Detailed explanation-5: -Kubler-Ross’s best known contribution to the study, thanatology, that she had helped to create, was the five stages of dying people go through. She described them-denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance-in her bestseller On Death And Dying (1969), written in two months.