Human Growth and Development / Unit 17 HGD 2410 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Monitoring and Blunting
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The idea
Suzanne Miller described two coping styles with threatening news: monitoring, seeking information even when it is bad, and blunting, avoiding distressing information.
In practice
One patient reading every study on her illness, and another asking her doctor to tell only her family.
Where people slip
Neither style is universally better; people differ in how much they want to know.
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