Psychology Flashcards
The intense physical and emotional expression of grief occurring as the awareness increases of a loss of someone or something significant
Acute Grief
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
Adaptation
The feelings and their expression
Affect
Those appropriate and helpful acts of counseling that come after the funeral
Aftercare aka Post-Funeral Counseling
The intentional infliction of physical or psychological harm on another
Aggression
Fear or anxiety caused by the sudden realization of danger created by the impact of the shock
Alarm
AIDS
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
The state of estrangement an individual feels in social settings that are viewed as foreign, unpredictable, or unacceptable
Alienation
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
Alternatives
A disconfirming response with more than one meaning, leaving the other party unsure of the responder’s position
Ambiguous Response
Blame directed toward another person
Anger
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
Anomic Grief
Anomic Grief is 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
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
Anticipatory Grief
A state of tension, typically characterized by rapid heartbeat, a shortness of breath and other similar ramifications of arousal of the autonomic nervous system; an emotion characterized by a vague fear or premonition that something undesirable is going to happen
Anxiety
The process of correctly pronouncing all the necessary parts of a word
Articulation
A death has occurred and the funeral director is counseling with the family as they select the services and items of merchandise in completing arrangements for the funeral service of their choice
At-Need Counseling
The tendency in human beings to make strong affectional bonds with other coming from the need for security and safety
Attachment Theory (BOWLBY)
Giving undivided attention by means of verbal and non-verbal behavior
Attending aka Listening
A learned tendency to respond to people, objects, or institution in a positive or negative way
Attitude
The experience of the emotion and grief
Bereavement
That branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct as it applies to business transactions
Business Ethics
A formal act or observance that may or may not have symbolic content
Ceremony
The medium through which a message passes from sender to receiver
Channel
Excessive in duration and never comes to satisfactory conclusion
Chronic Grief
The character of an individual viewed as a member of society; behavior in terms of the duties, obligations, and functions of a citizen
Citizenship
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 natural capacity for growth and health
Client Centered aka Non-Directive aka Rogerian aka Person-Centered Coounseling
The emotional tone of a relationship as it is expressed in the messages that the partners send and receive
Climate
A declaration or public statement of professional standards of right and wrong conduct
Code of Ethics
From the latin “to know”, the study of the origins and consequences of thought, memories, beliefs, perceptions, explanations, and other mental processes
Cognitive Psychology
The rite of finality in a funeral service preceding cremation, earth burial, entombment, or burial at sea
Committal Service
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
Communication
Grief extending over a long period of time without resolution
Complicated aka Unresolved aka Chronic Grief
To be clear and brief
Concise
To hold certain information in trust and not disclose without proper authorization or authority
Confidentiality
An expressed struggle between at least two interdependent parties who perceive incompatible goals, scarce rewards, and interference from the other party in achieving their goals
Conflict
According to client-centered counseling, the necessary quality of a counselor being in touch with reality and with other’s perception of one-self
Congruence
The emotional associations of a term
Connotation
Characteristic ways of responding to stress
Coping
A state of moral development in which the expectation of the social group (family, community, and nation) are supported and maintained
Conventional Stage (KOHLBERG)
The Conventional Stage is associated with whom?
Kohlberg
Agreement between group members about a decision
Consensus
The individual seeking assistance or guidance
Counselee
Advice, especially that given as a result of consultation; helping someone else with a problem
Counseling (Webster)
What is Webster’s definition of Counseling
Advice, especially that given as a result of consultation; helping someone else with a problem
Any time someone helps someone else with a problem
Counseling (Jackson)
What is Jackson’s definition of Counseling
Any time someone helps someone else with a problem
Good communication within and between men; good, free communication within or between men is always therapeutic
Counseling (Rogers)
What is Roger’s definition of counseling?
Good communication within and between men; good, free communication within or between men is always therapeutic
A therapeutic experience for reasonably healthy person. A counselor’s clients are encourage to seek assistance before they develop serious neurotic, psychotic, or charectorological disorders
Counseling (Ohlsen)
What is Ohlsen’s definition of counseling?
A therapeutic experience for reasonably healthy person. A counselor’s clients are encourage to seek assistance before they develop serious neurotic, psychotic, or charectorological disorders
The individual providing assistance and guidance
Counselor
The believability of a speaker or other source of information
Credibility
A highly emotional temporary state in which an individual’s feelings of anxiety, grief, confusion, or pain impair his or her ability to act
Crisis
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 crisis situations
Crisis Counseling
Consists of abstract patterns (rules, ideas, beliefs, shared by members of society) of and for living and dying, which are learned directly or indirectly
Culture
A learned emotional response to death-related phenomenon which is characterized by extreme apprehension
Death Anxiety
An unconscious, irrational means used by the ego to defend against anxiety
Defense Mechanisms
Taking innocent comments as personal attacks
Defensive Listening
Inhibited, suppressed, or postponed response to a loss
Delayed Grief Reaction (Worden)
Delayed Grief Reaction is associated with
Worden
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
Denial
The objective, emotion-free meaning of a term
Denotation
Counselor takes a live speaking role, asking questions, suggesting courses of action, etc
Directive Counseling
Treating members of various social groups differently in circumstances where their rights or treatment should be identical
Discrimination
A defense mechanism in which anger is redirected toward a person or object other than one who caused the anger originally
Displaced Aggression
Redirection of emotion to other targets
Displacement
Two units regarded as a pair
Dyad
An example of a dyad would be a
Husband and wife
An unconscious, irrational means used by the ego to defend against anxiety
Ego Defense Mechanisms
The outward expression or display of mood or feeling states
Emotion; Emotional Expression
Feelings such as happiness, anger, or grief, created by brain patterns accompanied by bodily changes
Emotions
Listening in which the goal is to help the speaker solve a problem
Empathetic Listening
The ability to enter into and share the feelings of others
Empathy (Wolfelt)
Empathy is associated with whom?
Wolfelt
Physical location and personal history surrounding the communication
Environment
Words that have more than one dictionary meaning
Equivocal Terms
That branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and to the goodness and badness of the motives and ends of such actions
Ethics (Webster)
Ethics is associated with whom?
Webster
The cultural heritage or identity of a group, based on factors such as language or country of origin
Ethnicity
A pleasant term substituted for a more direct, less pleasant term
Euphemism
An act or practice of allowing the death of persons suffering from life-limiting conditions
Euthanasia aka Right to Die
Listening in which the goal is to judge the quality or accuracy of speaker’s remarks
Evaluative Listening
Persons are usually conscious of the relationship of the reaction to the death, but the reaction to the current experience is excessive and disabling
Exaggerated Grief (Wordern)
Exaggerated Grief is associated with
Worden
