Intro to Grief and Understanding Mourning Process

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scientific study of human behavior

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psychology

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study of human behavior as related to funeral service

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funeral service psychology

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experience of the emotion of grief..state of deprivation of something valuable

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bereavement

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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

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mourning

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emotion/set of emotions due to a loss

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grief

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study of death

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thanatology

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irrational exaggerated fear of death

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thanatophobia

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advice, especially given as a result of consultation

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counseling (Webster)

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anytime someone helps somone else with a problem

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counseling (Jackson)

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good communication within and between men; good (free) communication within/btwn men is always therapeutic

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counseling (Rogers)

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provides assistance and guidance

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counselor

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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

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needs of bereaved

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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

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purposes and values of funeral

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“symptomology and management of acute grief published in ?

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1944

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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

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theories of grief: Lindemann

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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

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bowlby attachment theory

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5 stages of death and dying based on interviews with dying patients

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elisabeth kubler-ross

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5 stages of death and dying

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1. denial and isolation
2. anger
3. bargaining
4. depression
5. acceptance

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4 tasks of mourning (person)

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william worden

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4 tasks of mourning

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1. accept reality of loss
2. work through pain of grief
3. adjust to an environment which deceased is missing
4. emotionally relocate deceased and move on with life

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wrote early paper “mourning and melancholia” which he pointed out depression, which he called “melancholia” was a patholocial form of normal grief

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sigmund freud

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implies that mourner needs to take action

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grief work

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phases of mourning

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c.m. parkes

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4 phases of mourning

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1. period of numbness
2. phase of yearning
3. phase of disorganiazation and despair
4. phase of reorganized behavior

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manifestations of normal grief

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william worden

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manifestations of normal grief:

feelings

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saddness (most common), anger, guilt, and self reapproach, anxiety, loneliness, fatigue, helplessness, shock, yearning, emancipation, relief, numbness

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manifestations of grief:

physical sensations

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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

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manifestations of grief:

cognitions

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disbelief, confusion, preoccupation with thoughts of deceased, sense of presence, hallucinations

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manifestations of grief:

behaviors

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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.

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manifestations of grief

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feelings, physical sensations, cognitions, behaviors

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mediators of mouring (person)

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william worden

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mediators of mourning

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1. who the person that died was
2. nature of attachment
3. mode of death
4. historical antecedents
5. personality variables
6. social variables
7. concurrent stresses
8. circumstancial factors influencing grief

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intense and emotional grief occurring as the awareness increases of loss of someone/something significant

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acute grief

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blame directed towards another person

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anger

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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

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anomic grief

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sydrom characterized by the presence of grief in anticipation of death/loss; actual death comes as confirmation of knowledge of a life limiting condition

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anticipatory grief

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the tendancy in human being 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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act/event of separation/loss that results in experience of grief

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bereavement

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abnormal grief; grief exting over a long period of time without resolution

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complicated unresolved grief

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therapeutic experience for reasonable health persons

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counseling (Ohlsen)

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defense mechanism which person is unable/refuses to see things as they are because such facts are threatening to self

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denial

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redirecting anger toward a person/object other than 1 who caused the anger originally

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displaced aggression

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ability to perceive another experience and communicate that perception back to person

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empathy

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specialized techniques which are used to help people with complicated grief reaction

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grief therapy

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blame directed toward ones self based on real/unreal conditions

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guilt

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historically, inn for travelers; indicate a concept designed to treat patients with 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 specially trained physicians/psychotherapists; need special training because often work with deeper levels of consciousness

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psychotherapy (jackson)

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assumption of blame directed to ones self by others

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shame

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reaction of body to event often experienced emotionally as sudden, violent and upsetting disturbance

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shock

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guilt felt by survivors

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survivors guilt

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

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sympathy

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blame toward another

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anger

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blamed toward self

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guilt