Ch. 10 grief and loss

Question 1

Grief

Answer 1

subjective emotions and affect that are a normal response to the experience of loss.

Question 2

Grieving, also known as bereavement

Answer 2

process by which a person experiences the grief. It involves not only the content (what a person thinks, says, and feels) but also the process (how a person thinks, says, and feels).

Question 3

Anticipatory grieving

Answer 3

people facing an imminent loss begin to grapple with the possibility of the loss or death in the near future.

Question 4

Mourning

Answer 4

outward expression of grief

Question 5

Examples of rituals of mourning

Answer 5

having a wake, sitting shiva, holding religious ceremonies, and arranging funerals.

Question 6

Physiologic loss

Answer 6

examples include amputation of a limb, a mastectomy or hysterectomy, or loss of mobility.

Question 7

Safety loss

Answer 7

Loss of a safe environment is evident in domestic violence, child abuse, or public violence.
Home should be safe haven

Answer 8

loss of a loved one affects the need to love and the feeling of being loved. Loss accompanies changes in relationships, such as birth, marriage, divorce, illness, and death; as the meaning of a relationship changes, a person may lose roles within a family or group.

Question 9

Loss of self-esteem

Answer 9

Any change in how a person is valued at work or in relationships or by him or herself can threaten self-esteem
Death of a loved one, a broken relationship, loss of a job, and retirement are examples of change that represent loss and can result in a threat to self-esteem.

Question 10

Loss related to self actualization

Answer 10

external or internal crisis that blocks or inhibits striving toward fulfillment may threaten personal goals and individual potential. A person who wanted to go to college, write books, and teach at a university reaches a point in life when it becomes evident that those plans will never materialize or a person loses hope that he or she will find a mate and have children. These are losses that the person will grieve.

Question 11

attachment behaviors

Answer 11

theory that humans instinctively attain and retain affectional bonds with significant others
These attachment behaviors are crucial to the development of a sense of security and survival.

Question 12

Tasks of grieving

Answer 12

or mourning, that the bereaved person faces involve active rather than passive participation. It is sometimes called “grief work” because it is difficult and requires tremendous effort and energy to accomplish.

Question 13

acculturation

Answer 13

altering cultural values or behaviors as a way to adapt to another culture
may have caused some people to lose, minimize, modify, or set aside specific culture-related rituals

Question 14

Disenfranchised grief

Answer 14

grief over a loss that is not or cannot be acknowledged openly, mourned publicly, or supported socially

Question 15

complicated grieving

Answer 15

esponse outside the norm, occurring when a person is void of emotion, grieves for prolonged periods, or has expressions of grief that seem disproportionate to the event.

Question 16

ambivalent attachment

Answer 16

at least one partner is unclear about how the couple loves or does not love each other.

Question 17

dependent attachment

Answer 17

one partner relies on the other to provide for his or her needs without necessarily meeting the partner’s needs.

Question 18

insecure attachment

Answer 18

usually forms during childhood, especially if a child has learned fear and helplessness (i.e., through intimidation, abuse, or control by parents).

Question 19

Attentive presence

Answer 19

being with the client and focusing intently on communicating with and understanding him or her.

Question 20

adaptive denial

Answer 20

he client gradually adjusts to the reality of the loss, can help the client let go of previous (before the loss) perceptions while creating new ways of thinking about him or herself, others, and the world.