exam 1 Flashcards
The adjustment process during a period of sorrow that helps someone reorganize their life after the loss of a loved one is ________
mourning
A broad range of feelings and behaviors common after a loss is known as
normal grief
___________’s thesis is that all attachments come from a need for security and safety.
Bowlby
How a person grieves after the loss of a loved one can be predictable.
true
__________ defines the loss of which the person is trying to adapt.
bereavement
Socially negated losses and socially unspeakable losses are examples of _______ grief
disenfranchised
There are three areas of adjustment that need to be addressed after the loss of a loved one: external, internal, spiritual.
true
In which of the following methods of death could survivors most likely experience anticipatory grief?
1) AIDS
2) SIDS
3) SUICIDE
4) HOMICIDE
1 only
Active coping after a traumatic loss often leads to complicated grief.
false
Generally, mourning is finished when one’s emotions can be directed back into his/her life and living.
true
If blame is directed inward, this is
guilt
An irrational and/or exaggerated fear of death is
thanatophobia
He was the first professional to describe “anticipatory grief”
Lindemann
__________ “believed that in grief, the world looks poor and empty, while in depression, the person feels poor and empty.”
Freud
Chronic grief reactions are excessive in duration but will always come to a satisfactory conclusion.
false
In _______grief, the patient knows the excessive and disabling symptoms began around the time of the death of a loved one.
exaggerated
A person having had a complicated grief response in the past will never have a future complicated grief response
false
______ formulated the Grief Syndrome
Lindemann
A defense mechanism a person uses when unable or refuses to see things as they are because of threatening feelings to the ego is called
denial
Suppressed and inhibited responses to a loss are characteristics of
delayed grief
Whatever else is happening in the life of a person experiencing complicated grief is identified as
concurrent factors
______ occurs when one has disabling symptoms and/or behaviors but does not recognize these actions as being related to the loss.
masked grief
In dealing with complicated grief, the mode of death such as NASH is an example of
circumstantial factors
In which of the following situations would grief likely be resolved with the least amount of difficulty?
- when the mourner had a highly ambivalent relationship with the deceased
- when the mourner has no social support system
- when the mourner has successfully coped with similar prior losses
- when the deceased filled a variety of roles in the relationship with the mourner
when the mourner has successfully coped with similar prior losses
Helping mourners resolve a complicated grief response is called
grief therapy
