Clients Nearing Death: Behavioral Treatment Perspectives

Abstract

The literature on the relationship between psychosocial events and dying and death is reviewed from a behavioral perspective. Individual control for predictability of endogenous and exogenous events is identified as an intervening construct in the relationship between the timing of death and a variety of psychosocial factors. It is then argued that behavioral self-management is a potentially useful therapeutic tool for working with clients who are nearing death.