All Vocab Exam Flashcards
A culturally entrenched pattern of behavior made up of: 1. sacred beliefs, 2. emotional feelings accompanying the beliefs, and 3. overt conduct presumably implementing the beliefs and feelings
Religion
Making judgments about ourselves through comparison to others
Social comparison
A specific method or procedure used to comply with the Folkway, Mores and/or law
Rule
Specialized tecniques which are used to help people with complicated grief reactions.
Grief Therapy
Occurs when persons experiencing symptoms and behaviors which caused them to difficulty, but do not see or recognize the fact that these are related to the loss
Masked grief (Worden)
That counseling which occurs before death
Pre-need counseling
Intervention with people whose needs are so specific that usually they can only be met by specially trained physicians or psychologist. The practitioners in this field need special training because they often work with deeper levels of consciousness
Psychotherapy (Jackson)
The ability to communicate the belief that everyone possesses the capacity and right to choose alternatives and to make decisions.
Spec (Wolfelt)
Two or more people, unrelated by either blood or marriage who are sharing living quarters together.
Cohabitants
A must behavior of a people enforced by those elected to govern; a rule of action prescribed by an authority able to enforce its will.
Law
A family unit that is made up of a married man and woman and their children.
Nuclear family
Any act that is charged with symbolic content
Ritual
Overwhelming feelings of hopelessness, frustration, bitterness, self-pity, mourning the impending loss of hopes, dreams and plans for the future. The person feels a lack of control or numbness.
Depression
A set of symptoms associated with loss.
Grief Syndrome
Feeling such as happiness, grief, or anger, created by brain patterns accompanied by bodily exchanges.
Emotions
Brief review of points covered any portion of the counseling session
Summary
An event which allows those who have something in common with each other to deal with one another in regard to that which they share in common.
Social function
Ceremonies centering around transition in life from one status to another (Examples: Baptism, marriage, and the funeral).
Rites of passage
An act or practice of allowing the death of person suffering from a life limiting condition.
Euthanasia / right to die
An organization, public or private, which endorses the practice of conducting funeral rites without the body of the deceased present.
Memorial society
The ability to enter into and share the feelings of others.
Empathy (Wolfelt)
Life events and minor hassles that exert pressure or strain
Stress
The ability to present one’s self sincerely
Genuineness (Wolfelt)
Attempting to make deals with god to stop or changes the diagnosis by begging, wishing, praying not to die, or at leat to delay death.
Bargaining
A highly emotional temporary state in which an individual’s feelings of anxiety, grief, confusion, or pain impair his or her ability to act
Crisis
Detailed examples of adjustments, choices, or alternatives available to the client or counselee from which a course of action may be selected.
Illustrating
The belief that the created is reunited with the creator at death.
Doctrine of atonement
Giving undivided attention by means of verbal and nonverbal behavior.
Attending / Listening
The killing of one human being by another
Homicide
A learned emotional response to death related phenomena which is characterized by extreme apprehension
Death anxiety
A phrase coined by Carl Rogers to refer to that type of counseling where one comes actively and voluntarily to gain help on a problem, but without any notion of surrendering his own responsibility for the situation; a non-directive method counseling which stresses the inherent worth of the client and the natural capacity for growth and health.
Client-centered counseling / person-centered counseling
Spoken, oral communication
Verbal communication
A social prohibition of certain actions; a behavior which dictates that one must abstain from certain act.
Taboo
And directed towards oneself based on real or unreal conditions.
Guilt
A set of symptoms associated with loss
Grief syndrome (Lindemann)
The sudden and unexpected death of an apparently healthy infant which remains unexplained after complete autopsy and a review of the circumstances around the death
Sudden infant death syndrome / SIDS /crib death
The change from rural to urban areas.
Urbanization
According to client centered counseling, the necessary quality of a counselor being in touch with reality and with other’s perception of one’s self
Congruence
The change from individual crafting of products to the manufacturing of goods through mass production.
Industrialization
A state of tension typically characterized by rapid heartbeat and shortness of breath. An emotion characterized by a vague fear or premonition that something undesirable is going to happen.
Anxiety
Helping people facilitate grief to a healthy completion of the tasks of grieving within a reasonable time frame.
Grief Counseling
The outward expression or display of mood or feelings.
Emotion
Those funeral rites which deviate from the norm or prescribe circumstances of established customs.
Non-traditional funeral rite
Counseling in which a counselor shares a body of special information with the counselee
Informal counseling
To assist understanding of the circumstances of situations an individual is experiencing, and to assist that person in the selection of an alternative adjustment if necessary.
Facilitate
The movement of families away from where they were born.
Neo-localism
Those funeral rites that follow a prescribed ritual which may be dictated either by religious beliefs or social customs.
Traditional funeral rite
Of, or characteristic of the present or recent times; not ancient, often used to designate certain contemporary tendencies.
Modern
Dealing with agriculture, farm-based. The locale of the extended joint family system.
Agrarian
Grief extending over a long period of time without resolution.
Abnormal Grief / Unresolved Grief / Complicated Grief
A family government where the mother or female possesses power and the right of decision-making.
Matriarchal family
Centering a clients thinkings and feelings on the situation causing a problem and assisting the person choosing the behavior or adjustment to solve the problem
Focusing
Applying a logical, socially acceptable reason rather than the real reason for an action
Rationalization
Pertaining to demography; the science of vital statistics, or of births, deaths, marriages, etc. of population.
Demographic
Behavioral patterns which are observable by others.
Overt conduct
Common traits or patterns found in all cultures of mankind.
Cultural universal
Persons are usually conscious of the relationship of the reaction to the death, but the reaction to the current experiences excessive and disabling.
Saturated grief (Worden)
Defense mechanism used and grief to return to more familiar and more often primitive modes of coping
Regression
Redirection of emotion to other targets.
Displacement
Sincere feelings for the person who is trying to adjust to the serious loss
Sympathy
Those appropriate and helpful acct of counseling that come after the funeral.
Aftercare / Post funeral counseling
A death has occurred and the funeral directors counseling with the family as they select the services and items of merchandise in completing arrangements for the funeral service of their choice.
At-need counseling
And irrational, exaggerated fear of death
Thanatophobia
Knowing the impending death is real, not liking the fact, but realizing you must go on.
Acceptance
Good communication within and between people; or, good (free) communication between people is always therapeutic.
Counseling (Rogers)
The intentional infliction of physical or psychological harm on another.
Aggression
Advice, especially that given as a result of consultation.
Counseling (Webster)
A process by which a person learns the norms of his culture by observation of others in his or her society.
Indirect learning
The act or event of loss that results in the experience of grief.
Bereavement
A process involving all activities associated with funeral disposition.
Funeralization
Any event capable of producing physical or emotional stress
Stressor
Adjustment, motivational in nature, to be achieved.
Goals
Characteristic ways of responding to stress.
Coping
A process occurring with loss, aimed at loosening the attachment to the dead for reinvesting in the living.
Grief Work
Related to specific situations in life that may create crises and produce human pain and suffering. This type of counseling adds another dimension to the giving of information, in that it deals with significant feelings that are produced by life crises.
Situational counseling
Preoccupied and intense thoughts about the deceased
Searching
