Funeral Service Psychology & Counseling Flashcards
Adaptation
The individuals, ability to adjust to the psychological and emotional changes brought on by a stressful events, such as the death of a significant other
Affect
External expression of emotion
Aggression
The intentional implication of physical or psychological harm on another
After care/post funeral counseling
Those appropriate and helpful acts of counseling that come after the funeral
Alienation
The state of estrangement an individual feels in social settings that is viewed as foreign, unpredictable or unacceptable
Alternatives
Providing a choice of services in merchandise available as families make a selection and complete funeral arrangements, formulating different actions in adjusting to a crisis
Anger
Blame directed toward another person
Anomic, grief
Grief we’re morning customs are unclear due to an inappropriate death in the absence of prior bereavement experience
Anticipatory, grief
Grief in anticipation of death or loss
Anxiety
Any emotion characterized by a vague fear or premonition there’s something undesirable is going to happen
At need counseling
Funeral Director counseling with the family from the time the death occurs until the funeral disposition
Attachment
The tendency to make strong affectional bond with others coming from the need for security and safety
Attending
Giving undivided attention by means of verbal and nonverbal behavior; listening
Attitude
A learned tendency to respond to people, objects, or institutions in a positive or negative way
Bereavement
The action or event of separation, or lost that results in the experience of grief
Chronic grief
Excessive in duration and never coming to a satisfactory conclusion
Client centered counseling/person centered counseling
Non-directive method of counseling, which addresses the inherent worth of the client and the national capacity for growth and health
Cognitive psychology
In Latin, to know
The study of the origins and consequences of thoughts, memories, beliefs, perceptions, explanations, and other mental processes
Communication
A general term for the exchange of information, feelings, thoughts, and ask between two or more people, including both verbal and nonverbal aspects of this interchange
Complicated(abnormal, unresolved) grief
Grief that interferes with normal life functions without progressing towards resolution
Congruence
The necessary quality of a counselor being in touch with reality and others, perception of one’s self
Coping
Characteristic ways of responding to stress
Counselee
The individual seeking assistance or guidance
Counseling
- Advice, especially that given as a result of consultation
- A therapeutic experience for reasonably healthy persons. A counselors clients are encouraged to seek assistance before they develop, serious, neurotic, psychotic, or characterological disorders
Counselor
The individual providing assistance and guidance
Crisis
A highly emotional temporary state in which an individual’s feelings of anxiety, grief, confusion, or pain, impair his or her ability to act
Crisis counseling
Interventions, which help individuals in a crisis situation
Death, anxiety
He learned emotional response to death related phenomenon, which is characterized by extreme apprehension
Defense mechanisms
And often unconscious mental process, used to defend against anxiety
Delayed grief
Inhibited, suppressed, or postponed response to loss
Denial
The defense mechanism by which a person is unable, or refuses to see things as they are, because search fax are threatening to the self
Directive counseling
Counselor takes an active speaking role, asking questions, suggesting courses of action
Discrimination
Treating members of groups differently, in circumstances where their rights or treatment should be identical
Displacement
Redirecting feelings towards a person or object, other than the one who caused the feelings originally
Emotions
Feelings such as happiness, anger, or grief, created by brain patterns, accompanied by bodily changes