FSE2061 Thanatology Final Study Guide
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Barriers to Effective Communication (6): - answer✔1. Funeral Director *Dominance*
2. Bombarding with Questions
3. Inappropriate Self-Disclosure
4. Offering *Platitudes* or False Reassurance
5. *Discouraging* the Expression of Emotions and *Tears*
6. Emotional Distancing
Who is credited with the 4 Tasks of Mourning? - answer✔Worden
(4) Tasks of Mourning: - answer✔(*Worden*)
- To accept the reality of the loss.
- *To work through to the pain of grief*.
- *To adjust to an environment in which the deceased is missing*.
- *To emotionally relocate the deceased and move on with life*.
Who is credited with development of the 6 Mourning Reconciliation Needs? - answer✔Wolfelt
Mourning Reconciliation Needs: - answer✔(*Wolfelt*)
1. Embrace the pain of the loss
2. Remember the deceased
3. Search for meaning
Mediators of Mourning (factors that influence the grief process): - answer✔1. *Who the person
is who died*
2. *The Nature of the Attachment*
3. *How the person Died*
4. Historical Antecedents
5. *Personality Variables*
6. *Social Variables*
7. Concurrent Stresses
8. Coping with Extraneous Stresses
*Mediators of Mourning (Example)*:
The death of a spouse. - answer✔Who the person is who died.
*Mediators of Mourning (Example)*:
A daughter whose abusive father dies. - answer✔Nature of the attachment.
*Mediators of Mourning (Example)*:
When faced with grief, a person tends to experience great anxiety. - answer✔Personality
variables
*Mediators of Mourning (Example)*:
The grief experienced by a widow who moved to Florida 6 months before her husbands death
and has no family to go with her to the funeral home. - answer✔Social variables
*Mediators of Mourning (Example)*:
Grief experienced among 2 life long friends who grew up together, went to college together,
served in the military together and were best men in each others wedding. - answer✔Nature of
the attachment.
*Mediators of Mourning (Example)*:
Grief experienced when a loved one commits suicide. - answer✔How the person died. (Mode of
death)
*Mediators of Mourning (Example)*:
Grief experienced by a family who has strong ties within a religious support structure. -
answer✔Social variables
*Mediators of Mourning (Example)*:
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