Grief & Loss

Question 0

Factors Influencing Loss & Grief Responses

Answer 0

1. Age
2. Significance of Loss
3. Culture & spiritual beliefs
4. Gender
5. Socioeconomic status

Question 1

Stages Of Grief (Kubler Ross)

Answer 1

1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4. Depression
5. Acceptance

Question 2

Emotions

Answer 2

1. Feeling responses to a wide variety of stimuli

- Joy and fear

Question 3

Mood

Answer 3

1. Sustained emotional state and how one feels subjectively

Question 4

Affect

Answer 4

OBJECTIVE

1. The way people communicate mood to others
2. Observable emotional expression of mood

Question 5

Mood Disorders

-Characteristics

Answer 5

1. Mood disorders tend to be chronic in nature
   - 85% of people w/ one major depressive episode experience another
2. Relapse rates for bipolar 35% in 1 year
   - 87% in 5 years

Question 6

Descriptors of Affect

Answer 6

1. Appropriate
2. Inappropriate
3. Labile
4. Depressed
5. Elevated