Ch. 16: Dying and Bereavement

Question 1

Thanatology

Answer 1

Study of death, dying, grief, bereavement, and social attitudes toward these issues

Question 2

Clinical death

Answer 2

lack of heartbeat and respiration

Question 3

whole-brain death

Answer 3

declared only when deceased meets 8 criteria

Question 4

Persistent Vegetative State

Answer 4

Situation in which a person’s cortical functioning ceases while brainstem activity continues

Question 5

Bioethics

Answer 5

study of the interface between human values and technological advances in health and life sciences

Question 6

Active euthanasia

Answer 6

deliberate ending of someone’s life

Question 7

Passive euthanasia

Answer 7

Practice of allowing a person to die by withholding available treatment

Question 8

Terror Management Theory

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Kubler-Ross’s Five Emotional Reactions to Death

Answer 9

Denial
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance

Question 10

Final Scenario

Answer 10

Way for people to make their choices known about how they do and do not want their lives to end

Question 11

Grief work

Answer 11

Psychological side of coming to terms with bereavement

Question 12

Four- Component Model (for grief)

Answer 12

Model for understanding grief based on:
1. the context of the loss
2. Continuation of subjective meaning associated with the loss
3. Changing representations of the lost relationship over time
4. The role of coping and emotion-regulation processes

Question 13

Grief work as rumination hypothesis

Answer 13

Rejects the necessity of grief processing for recovery from loss and views extensive grief processing as a form of rumination that may increase distress

Question 14

Duel Process Model (DPM) of grieving

Answer 14

View of coping with bereavement that integrates loss-oriented stressors (the loss itself) and restoration oriented stressors (adapting to new life)

Question 15

Model of Adaptive Grieving Dynamics (MAGD)

Answer 15

model of grieving based on two pairs of adaptive grieving dynamics:
1. Lamenting and heartening
2. Integrating and tempering

Question 16

Complicated grief or prolonged grief disorder

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Separation distress

Answer 17

expression of prolonged grief that includes being preoccupied with the deceased to the point that it interferes with everyday functioning, having upsetting memories of the deceased, longing and searching for the deceased, and feeling isolated from the loss.

Question 18

traumatic distress

Answer 18

expression of prolonged grief disorder that includes disbelief about the death, mistrusting others, feeling anger, and being detached from others as a result of the death, feeling shocked by the death, and experiencing the physical presence of the deceased.

Question 19

Disenfranchised Grief

Answer 19

Loss that appears insignificant to others but is highly consequential to the person who suffers it (think pet)