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The study of human behavior as related to funeral service.

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Funeral Service Psychology

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The scientific study of human behavior.

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Psychology

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The experience of the EMOTION of grief….a STATE of DEPRIVATION of something valuable.

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Bereavement

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An adjustment PROCESS which involves grief and/or sorrow over a period of time and helps in the REORGANIZATION of the life of an individual following a loss or death of someone loved.

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Mourning

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An emotion or set of emotions due to a loss.

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Grief

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The study of death.

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Thanatology

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An irrational, exaggerated fear of death.

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Thanatophobia

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Who described counseling as anytime someone HELPS someone else with a PROBLEM? He was also an Instructor at Boston Mortuary College and a Methodist Minister.

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Edgar Jackson

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His method of counseling involved good COMMUNICATION. He was an minister that later became a Buddhist.

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Dr. Carl Rogers

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Who provides assistance and guidance to people?

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Counselor

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What type of treatment treats mental or emotional disorder?

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Psychotherapy

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He introduced the Grief Syndrome
His empirical evidence discovered patterns of behaviors
He wrote the book, “The Symptomatology & Management of Acute Grief” (1944) about the Grief Process
After the Coconut Grove Fire

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Erich Lindemann

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What are some of the patterns of behaviors observed by Lindemann?

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  1. Preoccupation with the image of the deceased
  2. Somatic or bodily distress of some type
  3. Guilt relating to the deceased or circumstance of the death
  4. Hostile reactions
  5. Inability to function as before the loss
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Who was the British psychiatrist that devoted most of his professional career to the area of attachment and loss?

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John Bowlby

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What was Bowlby’s theory called?

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Attachment Theory

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What is the Attachment Theory?

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Situations that endanger the bond of attachment give rise to emotional reactions.

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Who was known for the Five Stages of Death and Dying?

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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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What are Kubler-Ross’ 5 Stages of Death and Dying?

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  1. Denial and Isolation
  2. Anger
  3. Bargaining (shortest period)
  4. Depression
  5. Acceptance
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18
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What year did Elisabeth Kubler-Ross write her book on Dying Patients?

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1966

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What was the name of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’ book?

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Five Stages of Death and Dying

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What is does Kubler-Ross’s DABDA mean?

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  1. Denial
  2. Anger
  3. Bargaining
  4. Depression
  5. Acceptance
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Who was known for the Four Tasks of Mourning?

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William Worden

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What are the 4 tasks of mourning?

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  1. To accept the reality of the loss
  2. To work through the pain of grief
  3. Adjust to an environment in which the deceased is missing
  4. To emotionally relocate the deceased and move on with life
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Who wrote the early paper “Mourning and Melancholia” in 1917?

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Sigmund Freud

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What is melancholia?

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Depression and another form of pathological or normal grief.

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Who said that there are 4 Phases of Mourning?

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C. M. Parkes (British)

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What are the 4 Phases of Mourning (C. M. Parkes)

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  1. Period of numbness
  2. Phases of yearning
  3. Phase of disorganization and despair
  4. Phase of reorganize behavior
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What consists of William Worden’s Manifestations of Normal Grief?

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  1. Feelings: sadness, anger and guilt
  2. Physical sensations: hollowness in stomach, tightness in throat,
  3. Cognitions (Mental): Disbelief, hallucinations, sense of presence
  4. Behaviors (Observe): Sleep disturbances, appetite, absentminded, sighing
28
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What is the intense physical and emotional experience of grief occurring as the awareness increase of a loss of someone or something significant?

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Acute grief

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What is Blame directed toward another person?

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Anger

30
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This term describes the experience of grief, especially in young bereaved parents, where mourning customs are unclear due to an inappropriate death and the absence of prior bereavement experience.

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Anomic grief

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Known as a syndrome characterized by the presence of grief in anticipation of death or loss; the actual death comes as a confirmation of knowledge of a life-limiting condition.

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Anticipatory Grief

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What is grief extending over a long period of time without resolve?

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Complicated (unresolved, chronic) Grief

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Advice, especially that given as a result of consultation

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Counseling (Webster)

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Any time someone helps someone with a problem.

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Counseling (Jackson)

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Good communication within and between people; or, good (free) communication between people is always therapeutic.

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Counseling (Rogers)

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A therapeutic experience for reasonably healthy persons. Do not confuse with psychotherapy.

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Counseling (Ohlsen)

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Helping people facilitate uncomplicated grief to a healthy completion of the tasks of grieving within a reasonable time frame.

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Grief Counseling

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A set of symptoms associated with loss known as:

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Grief Syndrome (Lindemann)

39
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Specialized techniques which are used to help people with complicated grief reactions.

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Grief Therapy (Worden)

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A process occurring with loss, aimed at loosening the attachment to the dead for reinvestment in the living.

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Griefwork (Lindemann)

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Blame directed toward one’s self based on real or unreal conditions

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Guilt

42
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What feeling best describe the assumption of blame directed toward one’s self by others?

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Shame

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This behavior is called a reaction of the body to an event; often experienced emotionally as a sudden, violent, and upsetting disturbance.

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Shock

44
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What type of guilt is felt by family and friends after a death, coined by Lindemann?

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Survivor Guilt

45
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What is called sincere feelings for the person who is trying to adjust to a serious loss?

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Sympathy

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