Grief counseling Flashcards
What is the purpose and value of the funeral?
- It provides ceremonies that give expression to feelings
- It provides a framework for support
- Encourages the expression of feelings
- The funeral provides values to live by
What are the 7 phases of the helping process?
Phase 1: family and FD enter into a helping relationship
Phase 2: building of a helping relationship
Phase 3: exploration and assisting the family, understand alternatives
Phase 4: consolidation and planning
Phase 5: implementation and action
Phase 6: conclusions of the funeral process
Phase 7: post funeral follow up
Emotion or group of emotions that someone goes through at the time of loss
Grief
When the internal comes out; outward expression of loss
Mourning
Event of separation or loss that results in the experience of grief. Bereave actually means “torn away”
Bereavement
Psych counseling given by clergy members to help congregation members in times of problem or stress
Pastoral psych
Who wrote “The Many faces of Grief”
Edgar Jackson
What was the first pastoral psych book?
Understanding Grief
What are the four categories of loss?
- Loss of a significant person
-death, distance, divorce - Loss of part of self
-physical, mental, spiritual - External object
-theft, natural disaster - Developmental loss
-adult child move out, class of 2020
Affectional ties a person or animal forms between themselves and another. A time that binds them together in space and endures over time
Attachment
Tendency in humans/ animals to make strong affectional bonds fulfills the needs of safety and security
Attachment theory
Came up with attachment theory by studying WWII survival children
John Bowlby
What are the four fundamental attachment principals
- Forms early in life
- Directed to a few people
- Once a connection is formed in endures
- Not an exclusive human characteristic
What are the 5 stages of death and dying (grief?) and who came up with them?
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4. Depression
5. Acceptance
Who developed grief work
-studied coconut grove fire (492 people died)
Erich Lindemann
