2.1 Flashcards
Acute Grief
The intense physical and emotional expression of grief occurring as the awareness increases of a loss of someone or something significant.
Attachment Theory
the tendency in human beings to make strong affectional bounds with others coming from the need for security and safety
Bereavement
The act or event of separation or loss that results in the experience of the emotion of grief.
Emotion
The outward expression or display of mood or feeling states.
Emotions
Feelings such as happiness, anger or grief, created by brain patterns accompanied by bodily changes.
Fear
Strong emotion marked by such reactions as alarm, dread, and disquieting.
Funeral Service Psychology
The study of human behavior as related to funeral service.
Grief
An emotion or set of emotions due to a loss that is involved in the work of mourning; an emotion brought about by separation (death).
Grief Work
A process occurring with loss aimed at loosening the attachment to the dead for re-investment in the living.
Mourning
An adjustment process which involves grief or sorrow over a period of time (bereavement period) and helps in the reorganization of the life of an individual following a loss or death of someone loved.
Thanatology
The study of death, especially the medical, emotional, and final problems associated with dying.
Thanatophobia
An abnormally great fear of death.