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Thanatology Exam Complete Solutions New Update Abnormal (complicated, unresolved) grief - grief extending over a long period of time without resolution. Absent Grief - Grief in which there appears to be no signs of grief in a person following a major bereavement. Acute Grief - The intense phy...

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Abnormal (complicated, unresolved) grief - ✔✔grief extending over a long period of time without

resolution.


Absent Grief - ✔✔Grief in which there appears to be no signs of grief in a person following a major

bereavement.


Acute Grief - ✔✔The intense physical and emotional expression of grief occurring as the awareness

increases of a loss of


someone or something significant.


Adaptation - ✔✔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.


Affect - ✔✔Is the feelings and their expression.


Aftercare (post-funeral counseling) - ✔✔those appropriate and helpful acts of counseling that come after

the funeral


Agression - ✔✔The intentional infliction of physical or psychological harm on another.


A.I.D.S. - ✔✔Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome


Alarm - ✔✔Is defined as fear or anxiety caused by the sudden realization of danger created by the impact

of the shock.




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Alienation - ✔✔The state of estrangement an individual feels in social settings that are viewed as foreign,

unpredictable or unacceptable.


Alternatives - ✔✔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.


Ambiguous Response - ✔✔A disconfirming response with more than one meaning, leaving the other

party unsure of the responder's position.


Anger - ✔✔Is blame directed toward another person.


Anomic Grief - ✔✔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.


Anticipatory 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.


Anxiety - ✔✔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.


Articulation - ✔✔The process of pronouncing all the necessary parts of a word.


At-Need Counseling - ✔✔A death has occurred and the funeral director is advising the family from the

time the death occurs until the final disposition including selection of services and merchandise during

the arrangement conference.


Attachment (Bowlby) - ✔✔It is the tendency in human beings to make strong affectional bounds with

others coming from the need for security and safety; attachment occurs in the absence of the




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reinforcement of drives for food and sex and provides a way to understand the strong emotional reaction

that occurs when these bonds are threatened or broken


Attending (listening) - ✔✔The process of focusing on certain stimuli from the environment.


Attitude - ✔✔a learned tendency to respond to people, objects, or institutions in a positive or negative

way.


Behaviorism - ✔✔The school of psychological thought that views learning as the most important aspect

of an organism's development. Behaviorism seeks to objectively measure behavior and the way in which

stimulus-response relationships are formed.


Bereavement - ✔✔The act or event of separation or loss that results in the experience of grief.


Biological Psychology - ✔✔The school of psychological thought in which all our behaviors can be traced

to the biological functions of the brain. Therefore most of our behaviors are caused by the chemicals of

our physical body.


Ceremony - ✔✔A formal or symbolic act or observance.


Channel - ✔✔The medium through which a message passes from sender to receiver.


Chronic Grief - ✔✔Grief in which the reaction is one that is excessive in duration and never comes to a

satisfactory conclusion.


Client-Centered (Non-Directive; Rogerian; Person-Centered) Counseling - ✔✔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 situations; 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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