Final Quiz: Week 8 Flashcards
What is bereavement?
An objective fact that occurs when someone close to us dies.
What does bereavement signify in terms of status changes?
Changes such as a child becoming an orphan, a wife a widow, or a husband a widower.
What is large-scale bereavement?
An outcome of large-scale social phenomena such as natural disasters or wars.
Define grief.
A painful response to bereavement affecting how the survivor feels, thinks, eats, sleeps, and copes.
How does grief affect physical health?
Can lead to acute grief symptoms like tightness in throat, shortness of breath, and prolonged stressor effects like increased risk of disorders.
What are common personal and interpersonal effects of grief?
Confusion, insomnia, attention problems, anxiety, and waves of rage.
What is mourning?
The culturally patterned expression of the bereaved person’s thoughts and feelings.
How does mourning reflect culture?
It reflects local, regional, national, ethnic, and religious cultures at particular points in history.
What is normal grief?
Grief that stays within the bounds of a particular culture.
What characterizes complicated grief?
The bereaved person does not move from shock and pain toward a fulfilling life.
What is integrated grief?
The type of grief most parents achieve after the death of a child.
Define traumatic grief.
A severe and disabling response to sudden and often violent death.
What is anticipatory grief?
Grief that has become more common as people live longer with life-threatening conditions.
What is resolved grief?
Movement toward recovery from the most debilitating effects of grief.
What is unresolved grief?
Debilitating effects of grief that continue longer than expected.
What is hidden grief?
Hiding any signs of grief to appear as ‘normal’ as possible.
What is disenfranchised grief?
Occurs when society does not recognize a person’s right to grieve.
What does the Grief-Work Theory (Freud) suggest?
Grief is an adaptive response to loss, requiring acceptance of the reality of death.
What is the basic goal of Bowlby’s Attachment Theory?
To maintain the security provided by the significant relationship.
What are Parkes’ three basic components of grief-work?
- Preoccupation with thoughts of the deceased person
- Repeatedly going over the loss experience
- Attempts to explain the loss
What does the Stage Theory of grief imply?
It suggests there are stages in the grieving process, but stages can vary by theory.
What does the Meaning-Making Perspective emphasize?
Finding meaning in what happened is the best predictor of how people deal with grief.
What is the Dual-process model of coping with bereavement?
It regards practical adaptations and emotional processing as important for adjustment.
What does the Continuing Bonds Theory suggest?
Grief doesn’t mean detaching from the deceased; emotional ties often remain.
What is the Two-Track Model of Bereavement?
It examines how grief affects daily life and how people redefine relationships with the deceased.
How does grief manifest in children and adolescents?
Their understanding of death evolves with cognitive development; they may express grief through play or behavior.
What challenges do older adults face in grief?
They often experience cumulative losses and may feel more isolated due to lack of social support.
What is ambiguous loss?
Loss without closure, such as dementia or missing persons, leaving the bereaved in uncertainty.
What are non-death losses?
Losses like divorce, job loss, infertility, chronic illness, and migration that can trigger grief responses.
What is grief literacy?
Aims to empower communities to understand and respond to the loneliness and isolation caused by grief.
True or False: Grief has a final outcome.
False. Grief is a life transition without a definitive endpoint.
What are some examples of meaningful support for the bereaved?
- Grief counseling or therapy
- Support groups
- Bereavement programs
- Online communities
- Informal supports
What is an example of digital mourning?
Online memorial pages that allow continued connection with the deceased.
What are some least helpful statements to bereaved people?
- ‘Didn’t the funeral home do a good job?’
- ‘Put your faith in God.’
- ‘Was he/she in much pain?’
What is the role of social media in grief?
It provides new forms of support and allows for public vs. private mourning dilemmas.
