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Grief Glossary Flashcards

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  • grief extending over a long period of time without resolution.
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Abnormal (complicated, unresolved) grief

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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

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  • the individual’s ability to adjust to the psychological and emotional changes brought on by a stressful event such as the death of a significant other.
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Adaptation

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  • is the feelings and their expression.
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Affect

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  • those appropriate and helpful acts of counseling that come after the funeral.
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Aftercare (post-funeral counseling)

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  • the intentional infliction of physical or psychological harm on another
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Aggression

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  • Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
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A.I.D.S.

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  • the state of estrangement an individual feels in social settings that are viewed as foreign, unpredictable or unacceptable.
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Alienation

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  • providing a choice of services and merchandise available as families make a selection and complete funeral arrangements, formulating different actions in adjusting to a crisis.
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Alternatives

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  • is blame directed towards another person.
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Anger

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is 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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  • 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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  • a state of tension, typically characterized by rapid heartbeat, shortness of breath and other similar
    ramifications of arousal of the automatic nervous system; an emotion characterized by a vague fear or
    premonition that something undesirable is going to happen.
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Anxiety

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  • a death has occurred and the funeral director is advising the family from the time the death
    occurs until the final disposition including selection of the services and merchandise during the arrangements conference.
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At-need counseling

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  • it is the tendency in human being to make strong affectional bonds with others coming from the need for security and safety.
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Attachment (Blowlby)

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  • giving undivided attention by means of verbal and non-verbal behavior.
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Attending (listening)

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  • a learned tendency to respond to people, objects, or institutions in a positive or negative way.
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Attitude

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  • the act or event of separation or loss that results in the experience of grief.
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Bereavement

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  • excessive in duration and never comes to a satisfactory conclusion.
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Chronic grief

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  • see person centered counseling
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Client centered (person centered) counseling

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  • from the Latin, “to know;” the study of the origins and consequences of thoughts,
    memories, beliefs, perceptions, explanations, and other mental processes.
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Cognitive psychology

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  • the rite of finality in a funeral service preceding cremation, earth burial, entombment, or burial at sea.
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Committal service

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  • a general term for the exchange of information, feelings, thoughts and acts between two or more
    people, including both verbal and non-verbal aspects of this interchange.
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Communication

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  • see abnormal grief.
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Complicated (abnormal, unresolved, grief)

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  • according to client-centered counseling, the necessary quality of a counselor being in touch with reality and other’s perception of oneself.
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Congruence

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  • characteristic ways of responding to stress.
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Coping

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  • the individual seeking assistance or guidance.
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Counselee

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  • advice, especially that given as a result of consultation
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Counseling (Webster)

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  • any time someone helps someone else with a problem.
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Counseling (Jackson)

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  • good communication within and between men; or, good (free) communication within or
    between men is always therapeutic.
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Counseling (Rogers)

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  • a therapeutic experience for reasonable health persons. Do no confuse this with psychotherapy which is treatment for emotionally disturbed persons, who seek, or are referred for assistance with pathological problems. A counselor’s clients are encouraged to seek assistance before they develop serious neurotic, psychotic, or characterological disorders.
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Counseling (Ohlsen)

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  • the individual providing assistance and guidance.
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Counselor

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  • a highly emotional temporary state in which an individual’s feelings of anxiety, grief, confusion or pain impair his or her ability to act.
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Crisis

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interventions for a highly emotional, temporary state in which individuals, overcome by feelings of anxiety, grief, confusion or pain are unable to act in a realistic, normal manner. Intentional responses
which help individuals in a crisis situation.

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Crisis counseling

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  • a learned emotional response to death-related phenomenon which is characterized by extreme apprehension.
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Death anxiety

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  • an unconscious, irrational means used by the ego to defend against anxiety.
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Defense mechanisms

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  • inhibited, suppressed or postponed response to a loss.
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Delayed grief (Worden)

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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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  • counselor takes a live speaking role, asking questions, suggesting courses of action, etcl.
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Directive counseling

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  • treating members of various social groups differently in circumstances where their rights or treatment should be identical.
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Discrimination

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  • redirecting anger toward a person or object other than one who caused the anger originally.
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Displaced aggression

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  • feelings such as happiness, anger or grief, created by brain patterns accompanies by bodily changes.
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Emotion(s)

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  • the outward expression or display of mood or feeling states.
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Emotional expression

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  • the ability to perceive another’s experience and communicate that perception back to the person.
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Empathy (Wolfelt)

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  • an act or practice of allowing the death of persons suffering from a life-limiting condition.
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Euthanasia (right to die)

46
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  • persons are usually conscious of the relationship of the reaction to the death, but the reaction to the current experience is excessive and disabling.
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Exaggerated grief (Worden)

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  • to assist understanding of the circumstances or situations the individual is experiencing, and to assist that person in the selection of an alternative adjustment if necessary.
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Facilitate

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  • strong emotion marked by such reactions as alarm, dread or disquieting.
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Fear

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  • centering a client’s thinking and feelings on the situation causing a problem and assisting the person in
    choosing the behavior or adjustment to solve the problem.
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Focusing

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  • an organized, flexible, purposeful, group centered, time-limited response to death which reflects reverence, dignity and respect.
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Funeral rite

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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 state of being prevented from attaining a purpose; thwarted; the blocking of the satisfaction of a
    perceived need by some kind of obstacle.
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Frustration

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  • the ability to present oneself sincerely
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Genuineness (Wolfelt)

54
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  • adjustment, motivational in nature, to be achieved.
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Goals

55
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  • an emotion or set of emotions due to loss
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Grief

56
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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 counseling

57
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  • a set of symptoms associated with loss.
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Grief syndrome (Lindermann)

58
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  • specialized techniques which are used to help people with complicated grief reactions.
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Grief therapy (Worden)

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  • a process occurring with losses aimed at loosening the attachment to that which has been lost for appropriate reinvestment.
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Griefwork (Lindemann)

60
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  • support or support system provided to the counselee who is seeking an alternative adjustment to
    problems.
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Guidance

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  • blame directed toward one’s self based on real or unreal conditions.
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Guilt

62
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  • the killing of one human being by another.
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Homicide

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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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  • detailed examples of adjustments, choices or alternatives available to the client or counselee, from
    which a course or action may be selected.
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Illustrating

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  • counseling in which a counselor shares a body of special information with a counselee
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Informational counseling

66
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  • social attraction to another person.
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Interpersonal attraction

67
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  • a document which governs the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment from an
    individual in the event of an incurable or irreversible condition that will cause death with in a relatively
    short time, and which such person is no longer able to make decisions regarding his/her medical treatment.
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Living will

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  • occur when persons experience symptoms and behaviors which cause them difficulty but
    they do not see or recognize the fact that these are related to the loss.
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Masked grief (Worden)

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  • any event, person or object that lessens the degree of pain in grief.
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Mitigation

70
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  • the process that initiates, directs, and sustains behavior satisfying physiological or psychological
    needs.
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Motivation

71
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  • an adjustment process which involves grief or sorrow over a period of time and helps in the
    reorganization of the life of an individual following a loss or death or someone beloved.
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Mourning

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  • that which is expressed by posture, facial expression, actions, physical behavior; that
    which is communicated by means except verbally.
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Non-verbal communication

73
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  • choice of actions provided through counseling as a means of solving the counselee’s problem.
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Option

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  • a strong emotion characterized by sudden and extreme fear.
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Panic

75
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  • is a relatively stable system of determining tendencies within a individual.
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Personality

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  • expressing a thought or idea in an alternate and sometimes a shortened form.
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paraphrasing

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  • a phrase coined by Carl Rogers to refer to that type of counseling
    where one comes actively and voluntarily to gain help on a problem, but without any notion of surrendering
    his own responsibility for the situation; a non-directive method of counseling which stresses the inherent
    worth of the client and the natural capacity for growth and health.
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Person centered (client centered counseling

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  • a deliberate attempt to change attitudes or beliefs with information and arguments.
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Persuasion

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(aftercare) - see aftercare.

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Post-funeral counseling

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  • negative attitude towards others based on their gender, religion, race, or membership in a particular
    group.
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Prejudice

81
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  • that counseling which occurs before a death.
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Pre-need counseling

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  • attribution of one’s unacceptable thoughts, feelings, or behaviors to someone else.
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Projection

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  • the scientific study of behavior and mental processes.
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Psychology

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  • intervention with people whose needs are so specific that usually they can only be met
    by specially 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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  • a relation of harmony, conformity, accord or affinity established in any human interaction.
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Rapport

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  • supplying a logical, rational, socially acceptable reason rather than the real reason for an action.
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Rationalization

87
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  • returning to more familiar and often more primitive modes of coping.
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Regression

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  • blocking of threatening material from consciousness.
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Repression

89
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  • the ability to communicate the belief that everyone possesses the capacity and right to choose
    alternatives and make decisions.
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Respect (Wolfelt)

90
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  • preoccupied and intense thoughts about the deceased.
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Searching

91
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  • the assumption of blame directed toward one’s self by others.
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Shame

92
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  • the reaction of the body to an event often experienced emotionally as a sudden, violent and upsetting
    disturbance.
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Shock

93
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  • related to specific situations in life that may created crises and produce human pain and
    suffering. This type of counseling adds another dimension to the giving of information in that it deals with
    significant feelings that are produced by life crises.
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Situational Counseling

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  • making judgments about ourselves through comparison with others.
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Social comparison

95
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  • a phenomenon that occurs when an individual’s performance improves because of the presence
    of others.
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Social facilitation

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  • the mental and physical condition that occurs when a person must adjust or adapt to the environment
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Stress

97
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  • any event capable of producing physical or emotional stress.
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Stressor

98
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  • redirection of emotion to culturally or socially useful purposes.
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Sublimation

99
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  • the sudden and unexpected death of an apparently
    healthy infant, which remains unexplained after a complete autopsy and a review of the circumstances
    around the death.
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Sudden infant death syndrome (S.I.D.S. or crib death)

100
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  • a deliberate act of self destruction.
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Suicide

101
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  • a brief review of points covered in a portion of the counseling session
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Summary

102
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  • a conscious postponement of addressing anxieties and concerns.
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Suppression

103
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  • guilt felt by survivors
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Survivor guilt

104
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  • sincere feelings for the person who is trying to adjust to a serious loss
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Sympathy

105
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  • the study of death.
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Thanatology

106
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  • an irrational, exaggerated fear of death
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Thanatophobia

107
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  • the region of the mind that is beyond awareness especially impulses and desires not directly known
    to a person.
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Unconscious

108
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  • see abnormal grief.
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Unresolved (abnormal, complicated) grief

109
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  • spoken, oral communication
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Verbal communication

110
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  • the ability to be considerate and friendly as demonstrated by both verbal and nonverbal
    behaviors.
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Warmth and caring (Wolfelt)

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