Pyschology 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
Is 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
Is defined as fear or anxiety caused by the sudden realization of danger created by the impact of the shock.
ALARM
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
A.I.D.S.
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
Is blame directed toward another person.
ANGER
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.
ANOMIC GRIEF
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, 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
It is the tendency in human beings to make strong affectional bonds with others 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 institutions in a positive or negative way.
ATTITUDE
The experience of the emotion of 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