Exam 2 Material

Question 0

____ are when the loss in uncertain (MIA’s, no remains found) Multiple losses from plane crashes, natural disasters, fire may lead to bereavement overload that may complicate grief

Answer 0

Circumstantial Factors

Question 1

_____ are highly ambivalent relationships with unexpressed hostility. The death may reopen old wounds in highly dependent relationships the death may lead to a desperate sense of helplessness that may complicate grie

Answer 1

Relational Factors

Question 2

____ are people who have had complicated grief reactions in the past will have a higher probability of a complicated reaction in the present; there is interest in the influence of early parental loss on the development of subsequent complicated grief reactions in other losses my complicate grief

Answer 2

Historical Factors

Question 3

____ some people are unable to tolerate extremes of emotional distress; one’s self concept such as being the “strong one” in the family my complicate grief

Answer 3

Personality Factors

Question 4

____ the death is socially unspeakable (suicide, homicide, AIDS),the loss is socially negated (abortion), the absence of a social support network may cause complicate grief

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Social Factors

Question 5

____ is grief extending over a long period of time without resolution- abnormal

Answer 5

Complicated (Chronic, Unresolved) Grief

Question 6

____ inhibited, suppressed or postponed response to a loss - abnormal

Answer 6

Delated Grief Reaction

Question 7

____ persons are usually conscious of the relationship of the reaction of the death, but the reaction to the current experience is excessive and disabling

Answer 7

Exaggerated Grief (Worden)

Question 8

____ occurs when persons experience symptoms and behaviors which cause them difficulty but they do not see or recognize the fact that these are related to loss

Answer 8

Masking Grief

Question 9

____ is a deliberate act of self destruction

Answer 9

Suicide

Question 10

____ is an unsuccessful suicide attempt

Answer 10

Suicidal Gesture

Question 11

____ are thoughts about committing suicide

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Suicidal Ideation

Question 12

____ studied thousands of cases of suicide to demonstrate his theory that a person commits suicide because of the influence of society, his theory on suicide includes four types of suicide

Answer 12

Emile Durkheim

Question 13

____ is when a person commits suicide during times of adverse conditions such as war or financial hardships, when the rules of society don’t seem to apply - Emile Durkheim

Answer 13

Anomic Suicide

Question 14

____ is when a person commits suicide because one feels over regulated or over controlled, they feel there is no other way out - Emile Durkheim

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Fatalistic Suicide

Question 15

____ is when a person commits suicide due to a high sense of group involvement or out of a sense of duty for a cause (Kamikaze pilots in WWII, suicide bombers) - Emile Durkheim

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Altruistic Suicide

Question 16

____ is when a person commits suicide due to feelings of being a loner or feelings that one does not fit into society - Emile Durkheim

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Egoistic Suicide

Question 17

____ termed from Greek words for “well/good” and “death”

Answer 17

Euthanasia

Question 18

____ is the withholding of life-sustaining drugs or treatment, such as kidney dialysis, from a patient who is terminally ill.

Answer 18

Passive Euthanasia

Question 19

____ is taking active measures such as Dr. Kevorkian did, to end the life of a terminally ill patient

Answer 19

Active Euthanasia

Question 20

A child’s understanding of death

1. Birth to 3yrs - no comprehension
2. 3 to 5 yrs - unable to understand the finality of death; death is like sleep or like taking a long journey
3. 5 to 9 yrs - may understand that death is final but may not accept it as something that happens to everyone, often personify death (boogeyman, grim reaper)
4. 9 yrs and above - understands that death is final

Answer 20

Children and Death

Question 21

Explaining Death to Children… What ____ to say

• Make believe stories or fairy tales
• Something you don’t believe yourself
• Mother has gone on a long journey
• “God” took daddy away because he wants and loves the good in heaven
• Daddy is now in heaven (Debatable)
• Grandma died because she was sick
• To die is to sleep

Answer 21

NOT

Question 22

Explaining Death to Children…. What ___ say

• Share your own religious convictions
• Speak in concrete terms rather than philosophical ones
• Grant permission to cry, and express emotions
• Acknowledge when you don’t know the answer

Answer 22

To

Question 23

The funeral is an important occasion in the life of the family. A child should have the same right as other members of the family to attend the funeral, offer his or her last respects and express love and devotion. Not only is it correct to permit a child to attend a funeral, but approximately the age of seven, a child should be encouraged to attend

Answer 23

Children and Funeral

Question 24

1. Functional position or roles the deceased played in the family
2. Emotional integration of the family
3. How families facilitate or hinder emotional expression

Answer 24

Grief and Family Systems - William Worden