Ch. 13 Dying y Bereavement

Question 1

thanatology

Answer 1

the study of death, dying, grief, bereavement y social attitudes toward these issues

Question 2

clinical death

Answer 2

lack of heartbeat y respiration

Question 3

whole-brain death

Answer 3

death that is declared only when the deceased meets 8 criteria

Question 4

persistent vegetative state

Answer 4

situation in which a person’s cortical fcning ceases while brainstem activity continues

Question 5

bioethics

Answer 5

the study of the interface btwn human values y technological advances in health y life sciences

Question 6

euthanasia

Answer 6

the practice of ending life for reasons of mercy

Question 7

active euthanasia

Answer 7

the deliberate ending of someone’s life that may be based on a clear statement of the person’s wishes or be a decision made by someone else who has the legal authority to do so

Question 8

passive euthanasia

Answer 8

allowing a person to die by withholding available treatment

(ie) taking vegetative person off of ventilator

Question 9

physician-assisted suicide

Answer 9

process in which physician provides dying patients w/ a fatal dose of medication that the patient self-administers

Question 10

death anxiety

Answer 10

people’s anxiety or even fear of death/dying

Question 11

terror management theory

Answer 11

theory that addresses the issue of why ppl engage in certain behaviors to achieve particular psychological states based on their deeply rooted concerns about mortality

Question 12

end-of-life issues

Answer 12

management of the final phase of life, after death disposition of their body, memorial services y distribution of assets

Question 13

final scenario

Answer 13

making choices known about how individual does y does not want their lives to end

Question 14

hospice

Answer 14

an approach to assist dying ppl emphasizing pain management, or palliative care, and death w/ dignity

Question 15

palliative care

Answer 15

care focused on providing relief from pain y otro symptoms of disease @ any point during the disease process

Question 16

living will

Answer 16

a person simply states his/her wishes about life support y otro treatments

Question 17

health care power of attorney

Answer 17

an individual appoints someone to act as his/her agent for health care decisions

Question 18

Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) order

Answer 18

a medical order that means cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is not started should one’s heart y breathing stop

Question 19

bereavement

Answer 19

the state or condition caused by loss through death

Question 20

grief

Answer 20

the sorrow, hurt, anger, guilt, confusion y otro feelings that arise after suffering a loss

Question 21

mourning

Answer 21

the way people express their grief

Question 22

anticipatory grief

Answer 22

grief experienced during the period before an expected death occurs that supposedly serves to buffer the impact of the loss when it does come y to facilitate recovery

Question 23

grief work

Answer 23

the psychological side of coming to terms w/ bereavement

Question 24

anniversary term

Answer 24

changes in behavior related to feelings of sadness on this date

Question 25

four-component model

Answer 25

an understanding that grief is based on four things:

(1) the context of the loss [expected?]
(2) continuation of subjective meaning associated w/ loss
(3) changing representations of the lost relationship over time
(4) the role of coping y emotion regulation process

Question 26

grief work as rumination hypothesis

Answer 26

an approach that not only rejects the necessity of grief processing for recovery from loss but vies extensive grief processing as a form of rumination that may actually increase distress

Question 27

dual process model (DPM)

Answer 27

view of coping w/ bereavement that integrates loss-orientated stressors y restoration-orientation stressors

Question 28

complicated or prolonged grief disorder

Answer 28

expression of grief that is distinguished from depression y from normal grief in terms of separation distress y traumatic distress

Question 29

separation distress

Answer 29

preoccupation w/ the deceased to the point it interferes w/ everyday fcn, upsetting memories of the deceased, longing y searching for the deceased, and isolation following the loss

Question 30

traumatic distress

Answer 30

expression of complicated or prolonged grief disorder that includes feeling disbelief about the death, mistrust, anger y detachment from others as a result of the death, feeling shocked by the death, y the experience of physical presence of the deceased