Quarter 3 Final Exam (Psychology of Grief) Flashcards
Four Parts of Emotional Intelligence
- Self Awareness
- self Management
- Social Awareness
- Relationship Management
Aspects of Self-Care
- Physical
- Social
- Relational
- Emotional
- Spiritual
Sigmund Freud
- Father of Psychology
Sigmund Freud Childhood Stages
- Oral
- Anal
- Phallic
- Oedipal
- Latent
- Genital
Oral Phase
Take things in
Oral cavity focus
Anal Phase
Produce things
Phallic
Interested in body parts
Oedipal
Desire opposite sex parent
Latent
Repression of desires
Genital
Interested in sexual stimulation
Carl Jung and his principles
- Student of Freud
- Studied the biological changes in children
- conscious mind
- personal unconscious
- collective unconscious
- persona
- archetypes
Conscious Mind
Ego
personal Unconscious
What happened to you personally in the past that you may not remember
Collective Unconscious
Ancestors’ experience
Persona
The image you project
Can be conscious of unconscious
John Bowlby
- Attachment theory: early experiences as a child shape is as adults
- infant/caregiver relationship influences our development
- attachment is more important that body needs
When should a normal social life be bonded? (According to Bowlby)
Before 3 years old
Four Aspects of Attachment Theory
- Proximity Maintenance
- Separation Distress
- Safe Haven
- Secure Base
What is object permanence?
The understanding that something still exists even though it is not physically in front of us
Proximity Maintenance
wants to be near caregiver
Safe haven
Caregiver gives them a safe space to be taken care of
- we can return if afraid or threatened
Secure Base
- Caregiver encourages them to explore, try new things, make friends etc
- provides a “base of operations”
Separation distress
Child gets scared/anxious when apart from caregiver
Jean Piaget
- Developmental Biologist
- Studied many children
When do children begin to reason differently? (According to Piaget)
Age 15
Piaget’s Childhood Stages
- Sensory Motor
- Pre-operational
- Concrete operational
- Formal Operational
Sensory Motor
-0-2 years old
- reflexes
- movement causes movement
- some use of tools
- object permanence
Pre-operational
-2-7 years old
- speech
- understand simple rules
- concrete understanding, not conceptual
- why questions
- sense of time
- egocentric: hard to think as others
Concrete Operations
- 7-11 years old
- organized logical thought
- can classify/sort and sequence
- can use categories ex. Numbers, animals
Formal Operational
- 11-15 years old
- understand abstract thought
- can use logic
Erik Erickson
- created eights stages of development
- stages span from infancy to adulthood
Normative
- normative thinking begins at 15
- typical, expected, average
- no one is entirely normative
Ten things to tell a child about the death of a loved one
- tell the child as soon as possible about the death
- be truthful
- Share only the details the child is ready to hear
- Encourage the child to express feelings
- take the child to the funeral
- take the child to the cemetery even if the person is already buried
- Let the child tell others about the death
- Encourage the child to talk about the loss
- Be available to answer the child’s questions
- Never say “ you shouldn’t feel like that”
Rabbi Earl Grollman
- Believe that when a child can love they can grieve
- children at age 7 are old enough to attend funerals
- said “ because you cannot tell the whole truth, does not allow you to tell a lie” about death
Understandings of death changes with age
Universal: happens to everyone
Final : last thing we do
Irreversible : cannot return
Functions of the family
Shelter
Substance
Values
Egalitarian
Both mother and father make rules in household
Matriarchal
Mother makes rules in household
Patriarchal
Father makes rules in the household
Nuclear family
Mother, father, birth siblings
Extended family
Mother, father, grandparents, sometimes others (non-family)
Modified extended family
Family members that live in the same neighborhood/close to each other
Blended family
Two different families coming together, and possibly making other children
SIDS
- Sudden infant death syndrome
- Sudden and unexpected death
- Children under the age of one
- Unexplained after post Mortem investigation
Suicide
- tenth leading cause of death in the United States
- Over 47,000 deaths
- In US, twice the number of suicides than homicides
- More attempted suicide by females
- More completed suicides by males
Phone number for suicide prevention
1-800-273-TALK
