Comps Grief Counseling Extra Questions

Denial

What is 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?

Crisis

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

Emotions

Feelings such as happiness, anger, and grief, created by brain patterns accompanied by bodily changes defines?

Death Anxiety

What is a learned emotional response to death related phenomenon which is characterized by extreme apprehension?

Carl Rogers

Who believed counseling consisted of good free communication within or between men is always therapeutic?

Anticipatory Grief

What is a syndrome characterized by the presence of grief in anticipation of death or loss?

Informational Counseling

What is counseling in which a counselor shares a body of special information with a console?

Mourning

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

Regression

What is a defense mechanism used in grief to return to more familiar and often more primitive modes of coping?

Psychology

What is he study of human behavior?

Bowlby

Who is the Attachment Theory of grief associated with?

Client Centered Therapy

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

Emotion

"Affect" is synonymous with?

Grief Therapy

Using specialized techniques to help people with abnormal grief is known as?

Complicated grief reaction is manifested as prolonged grief

Grief therapy is most appropriate when a?

Second

Which of the following acts of mourning is to experience the pain of loss?

Active

Directive counseling is also known as?

The funeral ceremony is important for which of the following reasons?

1. It provides a meaningful conclusion to a person's life for the family.

2. It lends credence to the funeral profession.

3. It helps family and friends of the deceased to start a healthy healing process.

4. It contributes to the notion of the importance of the body being present during memorialization.

1 & 3 only

Lindemann's Grief Syndrome

Following the death of a loved one, an individual expresses to the practitioner that he is suffering from insomnia and loss of appetite. The practitioner realizes that the individual is experiencing symptoms of?

Jackson

Any time someone helps someone else with a problem is considered counseling by?

Motivation

The process that initiates, directs, and sustains behavior satisfying physiological or psychological needs defines?

Thanatology

What is the study of death?

Focusing

What is 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?

Sublimation

Redirection of emotion to culturally or socially useful purposes is?

Masked Grief

What type of grief occurs when a person experiences symptoms and behaviors, which cause them difficulty, but they do not see or recognize the fact that these are related to the loss?

Repression

Blocking threatening material from consciousness describes?

Anomic Grief

What 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?

Alienation

What is the state of estrangement an individual feels in social settings that are viewed as foreign, unpredictable, or unacceptable?

Panic

What is a strong emotion characterized by sudden and extreme fear?

Psychotherapy

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

Thanatophobia

What is an irrational, exaggerated fear of death?

Prejudice

Negative attitudes towards others based on gender, religion, race or membership in a particular group describes?

Griefwork

What is a process occurring with loss aimed at loosening the attachment to the dead for reinvestment in the living?

Adaptation

What is 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?

Displaced Aggression

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

Congruence

According to client-centered counseling, the necessary quality of a counselor being in touch with reality and with others perception of oneself defines?

Cognitive

What term means 'to know'?

Facilitate

What term means to assist in the understanding of the circumstances of situations the individual is experiencing, and to assist that person in the selection of an alternative adjustment if necessary?

Guilt

Blame directed toward oneself based on real or unreal conditions is?

Exaggerated Grief

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

Mitigation

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

Rapport

What is a relation of harmony, conformity, accord or affinity established in any human interaction?

Shame

The assumption of blame directed toward oneself by others defines?

Suppression

What is a more or less conscious postponement of addressing anxieties and concerns?

Sympathy

What are sincere feelings for the person who is trying to adjust to a serious loss?

Aggression

The intentional infliction of physical or psychological harm on another is termed?

Counselor

What is the individual providing assistance and guidance called?

Bereavement

What is the act or event of separation or loss that results in the experience of grief?

Complicated (Chronic) Grief

Grief extending over a long period of time without resolve is termed?

Anxiety

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

Frustration

What is the state of being prevented from attaining a purpose; the blocking of the motive of satisfaction by some kind of obstacle?

Respect

According to Wolfelt, what is the ability to communicate the belief that everyone possesses the capacity and right to choose alternatives and make decisions?

Grief

What is an emotion or set of emotions due to a loss?

Rationalization

What is supplying a logical, rational socially acceptable reason rather than the real reason for an action?

Positive Regard

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

Resistance

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

Social Facilitation

What is a phenomenon that occurs when an individual's performance improves because of the presence of others?

A. stress

The funeral rite satisfies all of the following needs of the survivors EXCEPT:

A. stress

B. closure

C. emotional

D. psychological

C. non-directive

Client-centered counseling is also known as:

A. active

B. directive

C. non-directive

D. psychoanalysis

Adaptive

What is a funeral rite adjusted to the wants and needs of those directly involved?

Ethnocentrism

What is the emotional attitude that one's own race, nation, group, or culture is superior to all others?

Demographics

What is the science of vital statistics?

Ceremony

What is an instrumental action dealing with death, that is expressional and may be charged with symbolic content?

C. I, III, and IV only

A traditional funeral service may consist of which of the following?

I. adaptive funeral rite

II. immediate disposition

III. primitive funeral rite

IV. humanistic funeral rite

A. I, II, and III only

B. I, II, and IV only

C. I, III, and IV only

D. II, III, and IV only

D. patriarchal

In which of the following family units does the father rule?

A. joint

B. matriarchal

C. egalitarian

D. patriarchal

B. raises the children alone.

In a nuclear family, when the spouse dies, the surviving spouse: A never marries.

B. raises the children alone.

C. depends on relatives to raise the children.

D. returns to his or her family to let them raise the children

B. denial

A reaction to death that may be reduced by viewing the body is?

A. loneliness

B. denial

C. shame

D. fear

Traditional Funeral Rite

What is a funeral rite that follows a prescribed ritual or ceremony which may be dictated either by religious belief or social custom?

Neolocalism

What is the movement of families from the area in which they were born?

Cultural Universal

Common traits or patterns found in all cultures is termed?

Memorial Service

What is a funeral rite without the body present?

Egalitarian

What is the term for a family, when the father and mother have equal rights, duties and governing powers?

Sociology

What is the science of social groups?

Folkways

What are behaviors which are construed as somewhat less compulsive than mores of the same society, and do not call for a strong reaction from society if violated?

Social Stratification

What is the categorization of people by money, prestige, and power?

Religion

What is a culturally entrenched pattern of behavior made up of: 1) Sacred beliefs, 2) emotional feelings accompanying the beliefs and 3) overt conduct presumably implementing the beliefs and feelings?

Customs

What is social behavior as dictated by the tradition of the people?

Society

What is the term for a group of persons forming a single community with some interests in common?

Urbanization

What is the change from rural to urban?

D. cultural relativism

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

A bureaucracy

B. enculturation

C. ethnocentrism

D. cultural relativism

D. rural

A joint family would most likely be found in which of the following settings?

A. metropolitan

B. urban

C. suburban

D. rural

A. law

What are rules of action prescribed by an authority able to enforce its will: A. law

B. taboo

C. ritual

D. folkway

C. humanistic

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

A. adaptive

B. traditional

C. humanistic

D. memorial service

C. taboo

A social prohibition of certain acts or actions? A. law

B. more

C. taboo

D. folkway

Non-traditional Funeral Rite

What is a funeral rite which deviates from the normal or prescribed circumstances of established custom?

Contemporary

Living or happening in the same period describes?

Bureaucratization

What is the creation of a system which governs through departments and subdivisions managed by sets of officials following an inflexible routine?

A. I and III only

Which of the following are correct about the value of a funeral rite to a family?

I. provides an emotional outlet II. provides a way to avoid the grieving process III. provides a psychological benefit IV. causes a division in the family A. I and III only

B. I and IV only

C. II and III only

D. II and IV only

Socialization (Enculturation)

What is the method by which the social values of the funeral rite are learned?

Symbol

What is an object or act that represents a belief or idea?

Rite

What is an event performed in a prescribed manner?

Patriarchal

Power is passed to the oldest male child in what type of family?

Extended (Joint) Family

Membership in the household includes father and mother, all their children (except married daughters), their son's wives and children (except married daughters) describes what type of family?

Ethnic

What is any of the basic divisions or groups of mankind, distinguished by customs, characteristics, language, etc.?

Blended Family

A family consisting of one male and one female and the children from their previous marriages and may include children from the present marriage is termed?

Cultural Relativism

What is the emotional attitude that all cultures are equal and pertinent?

Immediate Disposition

What is any disposition of a human remains which is completely without funeral rites at the time of disposition?

Subculture

What is a division, or smaller identifiable unit of culture, having unique traits to itself?

Rules

What are specified methods of procedure?

Indirect Learning

What is a process by which a person learns the norms of his or her culture by observation of others in his or her society?