TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - 'SI VIS VITAM, PARA MORTEM' terror management theory and psychosocial healthcare practice
JO  - Social work in health care
A1  - Geller, Shulamit
A1  - Yagil, Yaron
SP  - 182
EP  - 200
VL  - 58
IS  - 2
N2  - Terror management theory (TMT) contends that the need to manage the anxiety evoked by the awareness of one's own mortality, through proximal and distal defenses, lies at the heart of any human motivation. Proximal defenses aim at dismissing death awareness. Distal defenses aim at keeping them out of frame. The terror management health model (TMHM) applies TMT to issues of health and illness. TMT and TMHM are both explored mainly through empirical positivist research and theoretical discussions. Very few publications relate to the implementation of TMT. This article suggests further applications of the TMHM in social work practice.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0098-1389
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00981389.2018.1531103
ID  - ref1
ER  -