Intro to Grief and Understanding Mourning Process Flashcards
scientific study of human behavior
psychology
study of human behavior as related to funeral service
funeral service psychology
experience of the emotion of grief..state of deprivation of something valuable
bereavement
adjustment process which involves grief and or sorrow over a period of time and helps in recognization of the life of an individual following a loss/death of somone loved
mourning
emotion/set of emotions due to a loss
grief
study of death
thanatology
irrational exaggerated fear of death
thanatophobia
advice, especially given as a result of consultation
counseling (Webster)
anytime someone helps somone else with a problem
counseling (Jackson)
good communication within and between men; good (free) communication within/btwn men is always therapeutic
counseling (Rogers)
provides assistance and guidance
counselor
to confirm reality; to establish stability and security; to receive emotional support; to express emotion; to modify emotional ties to deceased; to provide basis for building new interpersonal relationships
needs of bereaved
opportunity to receive and express love; show respect for family, friends and deceased; provides opportunity for grief; provides a face to face confrontation with death..confirm reality death has occurred; 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 opportunity for farewell through ritual; provides dramatic presentation of the fact that life has been lived by reflecting upon memories of deceased; helps establish emotional stability through a social support network; establishes a socially excepted climate for mourning and expression of feelings
purposes and values of funeral
“symptomology and management of acute grief published in ?
1944
empiracal evidence discovered patterns of behaviors such as somatic/bodily distress of some type; preoccupation with the image of deceased/circumstances of death; hostile reactions; inability to function as before loss
theories of grief: Lindemann
attachment come from a need for security and safety; situations that endanger the bond of attachment give rise to emotional reaction; greater the potential for loss, more intense the reaction
bowlby attachment theory
5 stages of death and dying based on interviews with dying patients
elisabeth kubler-ross
5 stages of death and dying
- denial and isolation
- anger
- bargaining
- depression
- acceptance
4 tasks of mourning (person)
william worden
4 tasks of mourning
- accept reality of loss
- work through pain of grief
- adjust to an environment which deceased is missing
- emotionally relocate deceased and move on with life
wrote early paper “mourning and melancholia” which he pointed out depression, which he called “melancholia” was a patholocial form of normal grief
sigmund freud
implies that mourner needs to take action
grief work
phases of mourning
c.m. parkes
4 phases of mourning
- period of numbness
- phase of yearning
- phase of disorganiazation and despair
- phase of reorganized behavior
manifestations of normal grief
william worden
manifestations of normal grief:
feelings
saddness (most common), anger, guilt, and self reapproach, anxiety, loneliness, fatigue, helplessness, shock, yearning, emancipation, relief, numbness
manifestations of grief:
physical sensations
hollowness in stomach, tightness in chest, tightness in throat, oversensistivity to noise, sense of depsersonalization, feeling short of breath, weakness in muscles, lack of energy, dry mouth
manifestations of grief:
cognitions
disbelief, confusion, preoccupation with thoughts of deceased, sense of presence, hallucinations
manifestations of grief:
behaviors
sleep disturbances, appetite disturbances, absentminded behavior, social withdrawl, dreams of deceased, avoiding reminders of deceased, searching and calling out, sighting, restless overactivity, visiting places/carrying objects that remind of deceased, treasuring objects that belonged to deceased.
manifestations of grief
feelings, physical sensations, cognitions, behaviors
mediators of mouring (person)
william worden
mediators of mourning
- who the person that died was
- nature of attachment
- mode of death
- historical antecedents
- personality variables
- social variables
- concurrent stresses
- circumstancial factors influencing grief
intense and emotional grief occurring as the awareness increases of loss of someone/something significant
acute grief
blame directed towards another person
anger
term to describe experience of grief, especially in young bereaved parents, where mourning customs are unclear due to an inppropriate death and absence of prior bereavement; typical in a society that has attempted to minimize the impact of death through med. control of disease and social control of those who deal with the dying and dead
anomic grief
sydrom characterized by the presence of grief in anticipation of death/loss; actual death comes as confirmation of knowledge of a life limiting condition
anticipatory grief
the tendancy in human being to make strong affectional bonds with others coming from the need for security and safety
attachment theory (bowlby)
act/event of separation/loss that results in experience of grief
bereavement
abnormal grief; grief exting over a long period of time without resolution
complicated unresolved grief
therapeutic experience for reasonable health persons
counseling (Ohlsen)
defense mechanism which person is unable/refuses to see things as they are because such facts are threatening to self
denial
redirecting anger toward a person/object other than 1 who caused the anger originally
displaced aggression
ability to perceive another experience and communicate that perception back to person
empathy
specialized techniques which are used to help people with complicated grief reaction
grief therapy
blame directed toward ones self based on real/unreal conditions
guilt
historically, inn for travelers; indicate a concept designed to treat patients with life limiting condition
hospice
intervention with people whose needs are so specific that usually they can only be met by specially trained physicians/psychotherapists; need special training because often work with deeper levels of consciousness
psychotherapy (jackson)
assumption of blame directed to ones self by others
shame
reaction of body to event often experienced emotionally as sudden, violent and upsetting disturbance
shock
guilt felt by survivors
survivors guilt
sincere feelings for person who is trying to adjust to a serious loss
sympathy
blame toward another
anger
blamed toward self
guilt
