The Funeral Directors Own Grief - Test 3

Question 1

Who stated that: “Each of us holds fears, doubts, anxieties, and questions about death.

Answer 1

Welch

Question 2

• Having to handle a loss similar to a loss they personally experienced. e.g., death of their child.
• Having unresolved loss issues that arise when dealing with a grieving family.
• Handling a particularly horrendous death.
• Having a close personal relationship with the deceased.

Answer 2

Reports of Funeral directors on their own issues of grief that can surface when dealing with these situations.

Question 3

• Do you feel comfortable talking about your own death?
• Being a funeral director, you help people with death every day. However, are you comfortable talking about your own death?
• If you are uneasy talking about your own death and haven’t thought about what you believe happens when you die, most likely you aren’t comfortable talking about your own personal death.
• Try to get to a point to where you can when friends and family, plan your own funeral, write instructions, ask family for beliefs about what happens after death - you will be learning and integrating a diversity of information and will be able to be more sensitive when planning family’s funeral services.
• Having a clear sense of what happens after you die will aid you personally when you experience a loss in your life. (People who believe in an afterlife tend to cope with loss better).

Answer 3

Kelley Baltzell - parts from her “Yellow book news”

Question 4

• To be aware of her interactions and limitations in working with different clients and different kinds of grief situations.
• Discover unresolved loss issues.
• Identify resources that helped her and may help her client.

Answer 4

Looking into one’s own experience with death and grief can help a funeral director do these things.

Question 5

Self and analysis of loss. One way to initiate this is to start a loss time-line.

Answer 5

Loss analysis

Question 6

• Draw a straight line and on the left end put your year of birth; at the right end, put in this year. In the middle, place the year that divides the line in two equal blocks.
• Next, divide the two halves of the time-line into blocks of years.
• Review your life for loss events and place them on the line in the appropriate spaces.

Answer 6

Loss Timeline

Question 7

An inventory of loss.

Answer 7

Loss inventory

Question 8

1. Did you have any anticipatory grief? If yes, how did you feel and respond physically, emotionally, and spiritually?
2. When the death occurred, how did you feel and respond physically, emotionally, and spiritually?
3. What do you remember most about the experience?
4. What helped you in coping with each loss?
5. What did you learn from these experiences that can help you in counseling others?

Answer 8

Questions to ask yourself about your losses for loss inventory.

Question 9

Ways to look at your own losses in life. (2)

Answer 9

• Loss analysis

- Loss inventory

Question 10

Who stated that: “The first practical step in dealing with our own beliefs is to acknowledge their existence! From there you can go on to deal with them.”

Answer 10

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