Psychology/Sociology Analysis Comprehensive

Jeff State FSE 230 Analysis

The individual providing assistance or guidance:

Counselor

A group of persons forming a single community with some interests in common:

Society

An object or act that represents a belief or idea:

Symbol

Negative attitude towards others based on their gender, religion, race, or membership in a particular group:

Prejudice

Treating members of groups differently in circumstances where their rights or treatment should be identical:

Discrimination

External expression of emotion:

Affect

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

Paraphrasing

Directive counseling is also known as:

Active

A term that would best describe the studies of the population is:

Demography

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:

Adaptation

The suicide of an individual who takes his own life in order that his family may receive life insurance benefits may be described as

Altruistic

List two characteristics of a good counselor or a helping funeral director:

Sincerity and Respect

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

Rapport

A statement or action which creates anxiety in an individual's life:

Threat

Family where there is one male and one female, their children from previous marriages as well as their children together:

Blended family

Guilt felt by family and friends after a death:

Survivor Guilt

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 acceptance:

Restitution

Aftercare continues to be an issue that many funeral directors do not understand and fail to embrace. List two basic forms of aftercare services a funeral home can provide.

Information Oriented Services, Direct Care Services

Carl Rogers is most frequently associated with:

Unconditional Positive Regard

A funeral rite that is adjusted to the needs and wants of those involved is known as:

Adaptive

An irrational, exaggerated fear of death:

Thanatophobia

A state of tension, typically characterized by a rapid heartbeat and shortness of breath; an emotion characterized by a vague fear or premonition that something undesirable is going to happen:

Anxiety

Any event, person or object that lessens the degree of pain in grief; I.e. - If a family member's participation by delivering a eulogy at a funeral service lessens her degree of pain in grief, her participation in the service could be termed as:

Mitigation

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

Grief Counseling

List the five stages of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs (in order)

Physical, Safety, Belonging, Esteem, Self Actualization

A must-behavior, the basic and important patterns of ideas and acts of a people as related to treatment of the dead which call for a strong reaction from the society if violated:

Mores

The attitude that all groups of cultures are equal and important is known as:

Cultural Relativism

The state of enstrangement an individual feels in social settings that are views as foreign, unpredictable or unacceptable is known as:

Alienation

Crying would be an example of a/an:

External response to an emotion

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

Mask Grief

The mother rules the family:

Matriacrchal

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

Summary

A suicide for which no reason can be found is _____ suicide:

Anomic

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

client-centered

According to Jackson, intervention with people whose needs are so specific that usually they can only be met by specially trained physicians or psychologists:

Pyschotherapy

Adjustment, motivational in nature, to be achieved:

Goals

A joint family would most likely be found in what type of setting:

Rural

A culturally entrenched pattern of behavior made up of sacred belief, emotional feelings accompanying the belief and overt conduct presumably implementing the beliefs and feelings

Religion

Carl Rogers is well known for his work in humanistic therapy, which is also known as

Client Centered Therapy

The science of human behavior/mind is called:

Psychology

The emotional attitude that one's own race, nation, group or culture is superior to all others:

Ethnocentrism

Funeral rites which are devoid of religion are:

Humanistic

Social behavior as dictated by tradition of the people

Customs

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

Facilitating

An event which allows those who have something in common with each other to deal with one another in regard to that which they share

Social Function

Membership within household includes father and mother, all their children (except married daughters), their son's wives and children (except married daughters):

Extended Family (Joint family)

An instrumental action dealing with death, which is also expressional, that is, it is changed with symbolic content expressing among other things, the attitudes of the participants and possible onlookers who may be regraded as co-beneficiaries:

Ceremony (Ritual)

A realistic attitude toward death can best be developed in ______________________

Early childhood

A deliberate act of killing oneself

suicide

Behaviors that are construed as somewhat less compulsive than mores of the same society and do not call for a strong reaction from society if violated:

Folk ways

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

Committal Service

The event of a loss; An event or act producing acute deprivation and loss due to death of one in whom emotional capital has been invested in:

Bereavement

Sam, age five (5) began using "baby-talk" and bedwetting after the birth of a baby brother. He was using the defense mechanism of:

Regression

A family in which the governance of power is shared by both the man and woman is referred to as

Egalitarian

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

Shame

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

Acute Grief

An all-inclusive term used to encompass all funerals and/or memorial services

Funeral Rites

A strong emotion characterized by sudden or extreme fear:

Panic

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

Guilt

The individual seeking assistance or guidance

Counselee

__________ in its broadest sense includes the patient and family prior to the time of death, at the time of death of the patient and care of the family during the bereavement period: a specialized health care program that serves patients during the last days of their lives

Hospice

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

Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

A division or smaller identifiable unit or culture, connected to that culture by common traits, having unique traits to itself

Subculture

A defense mechanism by which a person is unable or refuses to see things as they are because such facts are threatening to the self; characterized by an inability to perceive external reality is called:

Denial

Grief extending over a long period of time without resolve

Complicated Grief

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

Communication

The common name for a strong irrational fear that is difficult to eliminate

Phobia

A person who expresses anxiety and discomfort while attending a visitation at a funeral home is most likely experiencing a/an:

Conditioned Response

Anticipatory grief allows the grief work to be __________

Shortened

The psychological needs of the bereaved family need __________ support

Emotional

List two styles of counseling:

Directive and Non-Directive

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

Option

The age at which a child understands death as being both final and inevitable is

9 years and above

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

Crisis

In a nuclear family, when the spouse dies, the surviving spouse:

Raises the children alone

The tendency of contemporary off-spring to move away and relocate is called:

Neo-localism

Grief is best relieved by expressing it outwardly by ___________

Crying

According to Lindemann, a set of symptoms associated with loss

Grief symptoms

According to Wolfelt, the ability to be considerate and friendly as demonstrated by both verbal and non-verbal behaviors:

Warmth and Caring

List Kubler Ross's stages of dying that applied to the process of grief (In order)

Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression, Acceptance

A must-behavior that dictates the individual must abstain from certain acts

taboos

The creation of a system that governs through departments and subdivisions managed by sets of officials following an inflexible routine:

Bureaucratization

Folkways

Social customs which may be broken without serious consequences are known as

Humanistic

A funeral rite that in essence is devoid of religious connotation is known as:

4 and 5

An extended (joint) family does not include: 1. sons 2. son's wives 3. grandchildren 4. married daughters 5. married daughters' husbands

What family types traditionally practices patriarchal governance?

Joint

Those funeral rites that deviate from the prescribed circumstances are ________ funeral rites

Non-traditonal

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

Displaced aggression

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:

Alternatives

memorial service

funeral rites with the body not present

anonymity

the loss of individual identity is called

Funeral

Rites with the body present

According to Carl Rogers, accepting the client or counselee as he or she is, without imposing judgment of stipulations

Positive Regard

Suicidal gesture

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

Frustration

The state of being prevented from attaining a goal best defines

Suicide resulting from a hopeless situation is:

Fatalistic

Nuclear

The modern American family is considered to be:

According to Linderman, a process occurring with loss, aimed at loosening the attachment to the dead for reinvestment in the living:

Grief Work

Frustration

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

The change from rural to Surburban:

Urbanization