Thanatology: Psychology and Counseling

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The intense physical and emotional expression of grief occurring as the awareness increases of a loss of someone or something significant

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Acute Grief

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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

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Adaptation

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Is the feelings and their expression

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Affect

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Is defined a fear or anxiety caused by the sudden realization of danger created by the impact of the shock

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Alarm

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AIDS

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Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome

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The state of estrangement an individual feels in social settings that are viewed as foreign, unpredictable, or unacceptable

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Alienation

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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

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Alternatives

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Is blame directed toward another person

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Anger

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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

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Anomic Grief

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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

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Anomic Grief

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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

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Anticipatory Grief

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A state of tension, typically characterized by rapid heartbeat, shortness of breath, and other similar ramifications of arousal of the autonomic nervous system

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Anxiety

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An emotion characterized by a vague fear or premonition that something undesirable is going to happen

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Anxiety

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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

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At-Need Counseling

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It is the tendency in human beings 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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Giving undivided attention by means of verbal and non-verbal behavior

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Attending (Listening)

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The experience of the emotion of grief

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Bereavement

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A formal act or observance that may or may not have symbolic content

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Ceremony

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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

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Client Centered Counseling

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A non-directive method of counseling which stresses the inherent worth of the client and the natural capacity for growth and health

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Client Centered Counseling

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The rite of finality in a funeral service preceding cremation, earth burial, entombment, or burial at sea

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Committal Service

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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

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Communication

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Grief extended over a long period of time without resolution

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Complicated (Unresolved, chronic) Grief

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According to client-centered counseling, the necessary quality of a counselor being in touch with reality and with other’s perception of one-self

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Congruence

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The individual seeking assistance or guidance

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Counselee

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Advice, especially that given as a result of consultation

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Counseling (Webster)

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Any time someone helps someone else with a problem

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Counseling (Jackson)

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Good communication within and between men; or, good (free) communication within or between men is always therapeutic

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Counseling (Rogers)

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A therapeutic experience for reasonably healthy persons

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Counseling (Ohlsen)

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The individual providing assistance and guidance

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Counselor

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A highly emotional temporary state in which an individual's feelings of anxiety, grief, confusion, or pain impair his or her ability to act

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Crisis

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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 a crisis situation

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Crisis Counseling

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A learned emotional response to death-related phenomenon which is a characterized by extreme apprehension

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Death Anxiety

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Inhibited, suppressed or postponed response to a loss

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Delayed Grief Reaction

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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

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Denial

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Counselor takes a live speaking role, asking questions, suggesting courses of action, etc

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Directive Counseling

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A defense mechanism in which anger is redirected toward a person or object other than the one who caused the anger originally

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Displaced Aggression

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Two units regarded as a pair; for example, husband and wife

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Dyad

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Feelings such as happiness, anger, or grief, created by brain patterns accompanied by bodily changes

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Emotions

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The ability to enter into and share the feelings of others

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Empathy

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An act or practice of allowing the death of persons suffering from a life-limiting condition

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Euthanasia (Right to Die)

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Person are usually conscious of the relationship of the reaction to the death, but the reaction to the current experience is excessive and disabling

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Exaggerated Grief (Worden)

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To assist understanding of the circumstances or situations the individual is experiencing, and to assist that person in the selection of an alternative adjustment if necessary

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Facilitate

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Strong emotion marked by such reactions as alarm, dread, and disquieting

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Fear

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Centering a client's thinking and feelings on the situation causing a problem and assisting the person in choosing the behavior or adjustment to solve the problem

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Focusing

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An organized, flexible, purposeful, group centered, time-limited response to death which reflects reverence, dignity, and respect

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Funeral Rite

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The study of human behavior as related to funeral service

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Funeral Service Psychology

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The state of being prevented from attaining a purpose; thwarted; the blocking of the satisfaction of a perceived need by some kind of obstacle

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Frustration

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The ability to present one's self sincerely

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Genuineness

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Adjustment, motivational in nature, to be achieved

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Goals

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An emotion or set of emotions due to a loss

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Grief

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Helping people facilitate uncomplicated grief to a healthy completion of the tasks of grieving within a reasonable time frame

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Grief Counseling

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A set of symptoms associated with loss

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Grief Syndrome (Lindemann)

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Specialized techniques which are used to help people with complicated grief reactions

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Grief Therapy (Worden)

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A process occurring with losses aimed at loosening the attachment to that which has been lost for appropriate reinvestment

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Griefwork (Lindemann)

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Support or support system provided to the counselee who is seeking an alternative adjustment to problems

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Guidance

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Blame directed toward one's self based on real or unreal conditions

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Guilt

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The killing of one human being by another

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Homicide

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Historically, an inn for travelers, especially one kept by a religious order; also used to indicate a concept designed to treat patients with a life-limiting condition

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Hospice

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Detailed examples of adjustments, choices, or alternatives available to the client or counselee, from which a course of action may be selected

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Illustrating

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Counseling in which a counselor shares a body of special information with a counselee

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Informational Counseling

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Occurs when person experience symptoms and behaviors which cause them difficulty but they do not see or recognize the fact that these are related to the loss

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Masked Grief

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Any event, person, or object that lessens the degree of pain in grief

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Mitigation

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An adjustment process which involves grief or sorrow over a period of time and helps in the reorganization of the life of an individual following a loss or death of someone loved

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Mourning

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That which is expressed by posture, facial expressions, actions, physical behavior; that which is communicated by any means except verbally

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Non-Verbal Communication

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Choice of actions provided through counseling as a means of solving the counselee's problem

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Option

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A strong emotion characterized by sudden and extreme fear

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Panic

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Expressing a thought or idea in an alternate and sometimes a shortened form

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Paraphrasing

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According to Carl Rogers, accepting the client or counselee as he or she is, and for what he or she is without imposing judgments or stipulations

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Positive Regard

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Those appropriate and helpful acts of counseling that come after the funeral

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Post-funeral counseling

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That counseling which occurs before a death

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Pre-Need Counseling

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The study of human behavior

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Psychology

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Intervention with people whose needs are so specific that usually they can only be met by specially trained physicians or psychologists

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Psychotherapy (Jackson)

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The practitioners in this field need special training because they often work with deeper levels of consciousness

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Psychotherapy (Jackson)

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A relation of harmony, conformity, accord, or affinity established in any human interaction

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Rapport

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A defense mechanism used in grief to return to more familiar and often more primitive modes of coping

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Regression

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An adaptive maneuver characterized by an inability or unwillingness to act with the aim of asserting or sustaining individual control, autonomy, or self-esteem

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Resistance

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The ability to communicate the belief that everyone possesses the capacity and right to choose alternatives and make decisions

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Respect (Wolfelt)

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According to Simos, a compelling need by which the individual attempts to restore inner psychological equilibrium, uniting past, present, and future in the cycle from loss and the fear of loss to restitution

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Restitution

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Any act that is charged with symbolic content

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Ritual

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Preoccupied and intense thoughts about the deceased

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Searching

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The assumption of blame directed toward one's self by others

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Shame

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The reaction of the body to an event often experienced emotionally as a sudden, violent, and upsetting disturbance

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Shock

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Related to specific situations in life that may create crises and produce human pain and suffering

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Situational Counseling

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This type of counseling adds another dimension to the giving of information in that it deals with significant feelings that are produced by life crises

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Situational Counseling

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The sudden and unexpected death of an apparently healthy infant, which remains unexplained after a complete autopsy and a review of the circumstances around the death

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Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS; Crib Death)

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A deliberate act of self destruction

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Suicide

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An unsuccessful attempt to made by the person to end his or her own life

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Suicidal Gesture

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Thoughts of ending one's life

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Suicidal Ideation

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A brief review of points covered in a portion of the counseling session

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Summary

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A conscious postponement of addressing anxieties and concerns

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Suppression

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Guilt felt by the survivors

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Survivors Guilt

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Sincere feelings for the person who is trying to adjust to a serious loss

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Sympathy

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The study of death

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Thanatology

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An irrational, exaggerated fear of death

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Thanatophobia

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A statement or action designed or perceived to create anxiety in an individual's life

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Threat

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Spoken, oral communication

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Verbal Communication

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The ability to be considerate and friendly as demonstrated by both verbal and non-verbal behaviors

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Warmth and Caring (Wolfelt)