exam 1

Question 1

The adjustment process during a period of sorrow that helps someone reorganize their life after the loss of a loved one is ________

Answer 1

mourning

Question 2

A broad range of feelings and behaviors common after a loss is known as

Answer 2

normal grief

Question 3

___________’s thesis is that all attachments come from a need for security and safety.

Answer 3

Bowlby

Question 4

How a person grieves after the loss of a loved one can be predictable.

Answer 4

true

Question 5

__________ defines the loss of which the person is trying to adapt.

Answer 5

bereavement

Question 6

Socially negated losses and socially unspeakable losses are examples of _______ grief

Answer 6

disenfranchised

Question 7

There are three areas of adjustment that need to be addressed after the loss of a loved one: external, internal, spiritual.

Answer 7

true

Question 8

In which of the following methods of death could survivors most likely experience anticipatory grief?

1) AIDS
2) SIDS
3) SUICIDE
4) HOMICIDE

Answer 8

1 only

Question 9

Active coping after a traumatic loss often leads to complicated grief.

Answer 9

false

Question 10

Generally, mourning is finished when one’s emotions can be directed back into his/her life and living.

Answer 10

true

Question 11

If blame is directed inward, this is

Answer 11

guilt

Question 12

An irrational and/or exaggerated fear of death is

Answer 12

thanatophobia

Question 13

He was the first professional to describe “anticipatory grief”

Answer 13

Lindemann

Question 14

__________ “believed that in grief, the world looks poor and empty, while in depression, the person feels poor and empty.”

Answer 14

Freud

Question 15

Chronic grief reactions are excessive in duration but will always come to a satisfactory conclusion.

Answer 15

false

Question 16

In _______grief, the patient knows the excessive and disabling symptoms began around the time of the death of a loved one.

Answer 16

exaggerated

Question 17

A person having had a complicated grief response in the past will never have a future complicated grief response

Answer 17

false

Question 18

______ formulated the Grief Syndrome

Answer 18

Lindemann

Question 19

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

Answer 19

denial

Question 20

Suppressed and inhibited responses to a loss are characteristics of

Answer 20

delayed grief

Question 21

Whatever else is happening in the life of a person experiencing complicated grief is identified as

Answer 21

concurrent factors

Question 22

______ occurs when one has disabling symptoms and/or behaviors but does not recognize these actions as being related to the loss.

Answer 22

masked grief

Question 23

In dealing with complicated grief, the mode of death such as NASH is an example of

Answer 23

circumstantial factors

Question 24

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

Answer 24

when the mourner has successfully coped with similar prior losses

Question 25

Helping mourners resolve a complicated grief response is called

Answer 25

grief therapy