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Grief Counseling Exam 1 Flashcards

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the scientific study of human behavior

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Psychology

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the study of human behavior as related to funeral service

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Funeral Service Psychology

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the EXPERIENCE of the emotion of grief…a STATE of deprivation of something valuable

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Bereavement

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an adjustment PROCESS which involves grief and/or sorrow over a period of time and helps in the REORGANIZATION of the life of an individual following a loss or death of someone loved

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Mourning

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an EMOTION or set of emotions due to a loss

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Grief

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the study of death

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Thanatology

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an irrational, exaggerated fear of death

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Thanatophobia

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counseling defined by Webster

The dictionary begins with the letter A

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advice, especially that given as a result of consultation

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counseling defined by Edgar Jackson

the math teacher

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anytime someone helps someone else with a problem

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counseling defined by Carl Rogers

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good communication within and between men; or good [free] communication within or between men is always therapeutic (preferred style among FD)

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preferred style of counseling is defined by whom?

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Carl Rogers

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an individual who provides assistance and guidance

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counselor

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a treatment of mental or emotional disorder

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psychotherapy

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NEEDS OF THE BEREAVED…

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  • To confirm reality
  • To establish stability and security
  • To receive emotional support
  • To express emotions
  • To modify emotional ties to the deceased
  • To provide a basis for building new inter-personal relationships
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PURPOSES AND VALUES OF THE FUNERAL RITE

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  • The opportunity to receive and express love
  • To show respect for the family, friends and the deceased
  • To provide an opportunity to express grief
  • Provides for a face to face confrontation with death…confirm the reality that death has occurred
  • To gain emotional support through sharing…“Joy expressed is joy increased, grief shared is grief diminished.”
  • Theological, psychological and social needs of those who mourn are nourished
  • Provides an opportunity for farewell through ritual
  • Provides a dramatic presentation of the fact that a life has been lived by reflecting upon memories of the deceased
  • Helps establish emotional stability through a social support network
  • Establishes a socially accepted climate for mourning and expression of feelings
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Theories of Grief—Lindemann
p10, “Normal Grief”
Coconut Grove fire, 1942, over 500 dead 
“The Symptomatology and Management of Acute Grief” – 1944, he introduced the Grief Syndrome
Survivor guilt
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  • Somatic or bodily distress of some type
  • Preoccupation with the image of the deceased
  • Guilt relating to the deceased or circumstances of the death
  • Hostile reactions (anger)
  • Inability to function as before the loss (sense of absolute helplessness)
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ERIC LINDEMANN – GRIEF SYNDROME

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  • Studied the question, “Why do people grieve?”
  • Attachments come from a need for security and safety (not for biological need)
  • Situations that endanger the bond of attachment give rise to emotional reactions
  • The greater the potential for loss, the more intense the reaction
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JOHN BOWLBY…ATTACHMENT THEORY…POST LOSS GRIEF

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who adapted the five stages of death and dying?

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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

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What are the five stages of death and dying?

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Denial and isolation
anger
bargaining
depression
acceptance
(DABDA)
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what is probably the most useful stage of death and dying?

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depression

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WILLIAM WORDEN- FOUR TASKS OF MOURNING

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  1. To accept the reality of the loss
  2. To work through the pain of grief
  3. To adjust to an environment in which the deceased is missing
  4. To emotionally relocate the deceased and move on with life
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wrote an early paper “Mourning and Melancholia” in 1917 which he pointed out that depression, which he called “melancholia,” was a pathological form of normal grief

He also came up with the concept of “grief work” which implies that the mourner needs to take action

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SIGMUND FREUD

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C.M. PARKES- FOUR PHASES OF MOURNING

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  1. Period of numbness
  2. Phase of yearning
  3. Phase of disorganization and despair
  4. Phase of reorganized behavior
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MANIFESTATIONS OF NORMAL GRIEF- WILLIAM WORDEN (4)

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FEELINGS
PHYSICAL SENSATIONS
COGNITIONS (THOUGHT PATTERNS)
BEHAVIORS (OBSERVABLE)

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according to William Worden, what is the most common feeling associated with grief

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sadness

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MANIFESTATIONS OF NORMAL GRIEF- WILLIAM WORDEN

Feelings

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•	Sadness – the most common feeling
•	Anger
o	Frustration
o	A regressive experience of the loss of someone close
•	Guilt and self-reproach
•	Anxiety
•	Loneliness
•	Fatigue
•	Helplessness 
•	Shock
•	Yearning
•	Emancipation 
•	Relief
•	Numbness
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MANIFESTATIONS OF NORMAL GRIEF- WILLIAM WORDEN

Physical Sensations

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  • Hollowness in the stomach
  • Tightness in the chest
  • Tightness in the throat
  • Oversensitivity to noise
  • Sense of depersonalization
  • Feeling of short of breath
  • Weakness in the muscles
  • Lack of energy
  • Dry mouth
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MANIFESTATIONS OF NORMAL GRIEF- WILLIAM WORDEN

Cognitions (Thought Patterns)

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  • Disbelief
  • Confusion
  • Preoccupation with thoughts of the deceased
  • Sense of presence
  • Hallucinations
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MANIFESTATIONS OF NORMAL GRIEF- WILLIAM WORDEN

Behaviors (Observable)

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  • Sleep disturbances
  • Appetite disturbances
  • Absentminded behavior
  • Social withdrawal
  • Dreams of the deceased
  • Avoiding reminders of the deceased
  • Searching and calling out
  • Sighing
  • Restless over-activity
  • Visiting places or carrying around objects that remind the survivor of the deceased
  • Treasuring objects that belonged to the deceased
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MEDIATORS OF MOURNING- WILLIAM WORDEN (8)

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  1. Who the person that died was
  2. Nature of the attachment: strength and security of the attachment, ambivalence (conflicting feelings directed towards the person or object) in the relationship, conflicts with the deceased, dependent relationships
  3. Mode of death: natural (long or short duration), accidental, suicide, homicide
  4. Historical antecedents: previous losses and how these were grieved
  5. Personality variables: age and gender of the survivor, person’s coping style, cognitive style, self-esteem and self-efficiency, person’s belief and values
  6. Social variables: support availability, support satisfaction, social role involvements, religious resources and ethnic expectations.
  7. Concurrent stresses
  8. Circumstantial factors influencing grief: involvement of hospice, use of a living will
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the intense physical and emotional expression of grief occurring as the awareness increases of a loss of someone or something significant

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acute grief

33
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blame directed toward ANOTHER PERSON

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Anger*

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a term to describe the experience of grief, especially in young bereaved parents where mourning customs are unclear due to an inappropriate death and the absence of prior bereavement experience; typical in a society that has attempted to minimize the impact of death through medical control of disease and social control of those who deal with the dying and the dead

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Anomic grief

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  • a syndrome characterized by the presence of grief in anticipation of death or loss; the actual death comes as a confirmation of knowledge of a life-limiting condition
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Anticipatory grief

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the tendency in human beings to make strong affectional bonds with others coming from the need for security and safety

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Attachment theory (Bowlby)

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the experience of the emotion of grief…a state of deprivation of something valuable

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Bereavement

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grief extending over a long period of time without resolution; also called abnormal grief

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Complicated (Unresolved, chronic) grief

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a therapeutic experience for reasonably healthy persons. Do NOT confuse this with psychotherapy

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Counseling (Ohlsen)

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the defense mechanism by which a person is unable or refuses to see things as they are because such facts are threatening to the self

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Denial

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a defense mechanism in which anger is redirected toward a person or object other than the one who provided the anger originally

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Displaced aggression

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the ability to enter into and share the feelings of others

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Empathy (Wolfelt)

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the study of human behavior as related to funeral service

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Funeral service psychology

44
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an emotion or set of emotions due to a loss

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Grief

45
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helping people facilitate uncomplicated grief to a healthy completion of the tasks of grieving within a reasonable time frame

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Grief therapy (Worden)

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blame directed toward ONE’S SELF BASED ON REAL OR UNREAL CONDITIONS

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Guilt*

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historically an inn for travelers, especially one kept by a religious order; also used to indicate a concept designed to treat patients with a life-limiting condition

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Hospice

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intervention with people whose needs are so specific that usually they can only be met by specifically trained physicians or psychologists. The practitioners in this field need special training because they often work with deeper levels of consciousness.

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Psychotherapy (Jackson)

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the ASSUMPTION of blame DIRECTED TOWARDS ONE’S SELF BY OTHERS

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Shame*

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the reaction of the body to an event; often experiences emotionally as a sudden, violent, and upsetting disturbance

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Shock

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guilt felt by family and friends after a death

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Survivor guilt

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sincere feelings for the person who is trying to adjust to a serious loss

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Sympathy

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loss in mourner’s life not socially sanctioned

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disenfranchised grief

ex. affair, alternate lifestyle

54
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two losses associated with disenfranchised grief

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socially negated losses

socially unspeakable losses

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a typpe of disenfranchsed loss: those losses that society treats as non losses

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socially negated losses

ex. pregnancy (spontaneous or induced)

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a type of disenfranchised loss: specific losses about which mourner has a difficult time with talking about the death

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socially unspeakable losses

ex. suicide, AIDS

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