Funeral Service Counseling quiz 1: 8/27

Attatchment theory

John Bowlby. Gives us a way to understand the tendency for people to create strong bonds with others and to understand strong emotional reaction when bonds are broken or threatened

Engel

states that mourning is similar to the process of healing. Loss is psychologically traumatic to the same extent that being severely wounded or burned is physiologically traumatic

Normal Grief

"uncomplicated grief" a broad range of feelings and behaviors that are common after loss.

Erich Lindemann

bodily distress of some type, preoccupation with the image of the deceased. guilt related to the deceased. hostile reactions, inability to function as one had before loss.

Normal grief behaviors

sadness, anger, guilt, self-reproach, anxiety, loneliness, fatigue, helplessness, shock, yearning, emancipation, relief, numbness

Physical sensations of grief

hollowness in stomach, tightness in chest, oversenstivity to noise, sense of depersonaliztion, breathlessness, weakness, lack of energy, drymouth

Disbelief

cognition, "It didn't happen"

Confusion

cognition, difficulty concentrating, can't order thoughts

Preoccupation

cognition, obsessive thoughts about the deceased, how to recover the lost person

Sense of presence

cognitive counterpart to yearning

Hallucinations

cognition, visual and auditory, experienced in the first few weeks after the loss

Sleep distubances

behavior, difficulty sleeping

Appetite Disturbance

behavior, over and under eating

Absentminded behaviors

behavior, cause inconvience

social withdrawal

behavior, usually short-lived and corrects itself

Dreams of the deceased

behavior, can be of the dead, normal dreams of nightmares

avoiding reminders of the deceased

behavior, avoid triggers that remind them of deceased

searching and calling out

Behavior, can be done verbally or internally

sighing

behavior, closely related to the physical sensation of breathlessness

Restless hyperactivity

behavior, getting out to avoid thoughts

Crying

behavior, tears can have a healing value

visiting places or carrying objects that remind you of the deceased

behavior, opposite of avoiding remembering

treasuring objects that belong to deceased

behavior, not being able to part with deceased items

Grief

in waves, diminishes over time, healthy self-image, hopelessness, respond to support, overt expression of anger, preoccupation with deceased

Depression

moods and feelings are static, consistent sense of depletion, sense of worthlessness and distrubed self-image, pervasive hopelessness, unresponsive to support, anger not as pronounced, preoccupation with self