Exam 1 Flashcards
The study of human behavior as related to funeral service.
Funeral Service Psychology
The scientific study of human behavior.
Psychology
The experience of the EMOTION of grief….a STATE of DEPRIVATION of something valuable.
Bereavement
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.
Mourning
An emotion or set of emotions due to a loss.
Grief
The study of death.
Thanatology
An irrational, exaggerated fear of death.
Thanatophobia
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.
Edgar Jackson
His method of counseling involved good COMMUNICATION. He was an minister that later became a Buddhist.
Dr. Carl Rogers
Who provides assistance and guidance to people?
Counselor
What type of treatment treats mental or emotional disorder?
Psychotherapy
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
Erich Lindemann
What are some of the patterns of behaviors observed by Lindemann?
- Preoccupation with the image of the deceased
- Somatic or bodily distress of some type
- Guilt relating to the deceased or circumstance of the death
- Hostile reactions
- Inability to function as before the loss
Who was the British psychiatrist that devoted most of his professional career to the area of attachment and loss?
John Bowlby
What was Bowlby’s theory called?
Attachment Theory
What is the Attachment Theory?
Situations that endanger the bond of attachment give rise to emotional reactions.
Who was known for the Five Stages of Death and Dying?
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
What are Kubler-Ross’ 5 Stages of Death and Dying?
- Denial and Isolation
- Anger
- Bargaining (shortest period)
- Depression
- Acceptance
What year did Elisabeth Kubler-Ross write her book on Dying Patients?
1966
What was the name of Elisabeth Kubler-Ross’ book?
Five Stages of Death and Dying
What is does Kubler-Ross’s DABDA mean?
- Denial
- Anger
- Bargaining
- Depression
- Acceptance
Who was known for the Four Tasks of Mourning?
William Worden
What are the 4 tasks of mourning?
- To accept the reality of the loss
- To work through the pain of grief
- Adjust to an environment in which the deceased is missing
- To emotionally relocate the deceased and move on with life
Who wrote the early paper “Mourning and Melancholia” in 1917?
Sigmund Freud
What is melancholia?
Depression and another form of pathological or normal grief.
Who said that there are 4 Phases of Mourning?
C. M. Parkes (British)
What are the 4 Phases of Mourning (C. M. Parkes)
- Period of numbness
- Phases of yearning
- Phase of disorganization and despair
- Phase of reorganize behavior
What consists of William Worden’s Manifestations of Normal Grief?
- Feelings: sadness, anger and guilt
- Physical sensations: hollowness in stomach, tightness in throat,
- Cognitions (Mental): Disbelief, hallucinations, sense of presence
- Behaviors (Observe): Sleep disturbances, appetite, absentminded, sighing
What is the intense physical and emotional experience of grief occurring as the awareness increase of a loss of someone or something significant?
Acute grief
What is Blame directed toward another person?
Anger
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.
Anomic grief
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.
Anticipatory Grief
What is grief extending over a long period of time without resolve?
Complicated (unresolved, chronic) Grief
Advice, especially that given as a result of consultation
Counseling (Webster)
Any time someone helps someone with a problem.
Counseling (Jackson)
Good communication within and between people; or, good (free) communication between people is always therapeutic.
Counseling (Rogers)
A therapeutic experience for reasonably healthy persons. Do not confuse with psychotherapy.
Counseling (Ohlsen)
Helping people facilitate uncomplicated grief to a healthy completion of the tasks of grieving within a reasonable time frame.
Grief Counseling
A set of symptoms associated with loss known as:
Grief Syndrome (Lindemann)
Specialized techniques which are used to help people with complicated grief reactions.
Grief Therapy (Worden)
A process occurring with loss, aimed at loosening the attachment to the dead for reinvestment in the living.
Griefwork (Lindemann)
Blame directed toward one’s self based on real or unreal conditions
Guilt
What feeling best describe the assumption of blame directed toward one’s self by others?
Shame
This behavior is called a reaction of the body to an event; often experienced emotionally as a sudden, violent, and upsetting disturbance.
Shock
What type of guilt is felt by family and friends after a death, coined by Lindemann?
Survivor Guilt
What is called sincere feelings for the person who is trying to adjust to a serious loss?
Sympathy
