General Review Flashcards
The study of human behavior
Psychology
Two units regarded as a pair
Dyad
Common traits or patterns found in all cultures of mankind
Cultural Universal
An adaptive maneuver characterized by an inability or unwillingness to set with the aim of asserting or sustaining individual control, autonomy, or self-esteem
Resistance
A social prohibition of certain actions
Taboo
A behavior which dictates that one must abstain from certain acts
Taboo
Anything to which socially created meaning is given
Symbol
The state or quality of being mobile
Mobility
The ability to move from place to place readily, or to move from class to class, either up or down
Mobility
An organization, public or private, which endorses the practice of conducting funeral rites without the body of the deceased present
Memorial Society
A funeral rite held without the body present
Memorial Symptoms
A set of symptoms associated with loss
Grief Syndrome - Lindemann
The ability to enter into and share the feelings of others
Empathy - Wolfelt
A syndrome characterized by the presence of grief in anticipation of death or loss
Anticipatory grief
The actual death comes as a confirmation of knowledge of a life-limiting condition
Anticipatory grief
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
Anomic Grief
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
Anomic grief
Blame directed toward another person
Anger
Helping people facilitate uncomplicated grief to a healthy completion of the tasks of grieving within a reasonable time frame
Grief Counseling
An emotion or set of emotions due to a loss
Grief
Expressing a thought or idea in an alternate and sometimes shortened form
Paraphrasing
A strong emotion characterized by sudden and extreme fear
Panic
Choice of actions provided through counseling as a means of solving the counselee’s dilemma
Option
That which is expressed by posture, facial expression, actions, or physical behavior
Non-Verbal Communication
Adjustment, motivational in nature, to be achieved
Goals
The ability to present one’s self sincerely
Genuineness - Wolfelt
The study of human behavior as related to funeral service
Funeral Service Psychology
An all inclusive term used to encompass all funerals and/or memorial services
Funeral Rite
Historically an inn for travelers, especially one kept by a religious order
Hospice
Concept designed to treat patients with a life-limiting condition
Hospice
The killing of one human being by another
Homicide
Blame directed toward one’s self based on real or unreal conditions
Guilt
An organized, flexible, purposeful, group centered, time limited response to death which reflects reverence, dignity, and respect
Funeral Rite
Support or support system provided to the counselee who is seeking an alternative adjustment to problems
Guidance
The state of being prevented from attaining a purpose; thwarted
Frustration
The blocking of satisfaction by some kind of obstacle
Frustration
Centering a clients thinking and feelings on the situation causing a problem and assisting the person in choosing the behavior or adjustment to solve the problem
Focusing
Strong emotion marked by such reactions as alarm, dread, and disquiet
Fear
The defense mechanism by which a person is unable or refuses to see things as they are because such facts are threatening to the self
Denial
A learned tendency to respond to people, objects, or institutions in a positive or negative way
Attitude
Giving undivided attention by means of verbal and non-verbal behavior
Attending - Listening
A choice of services and merchandise as families make a selection and complete funeral arrangements
Alternatives
Formulating different actions in adjusting to a crisis
Alternatives
The state of estrangement an individual feels in social settings that are viewed as foreign, unpredictable, or unacceptable
Alienation
The tendency in human beings to make strong affectional bonds with others coming from the need for security and safety
Attachment Theory - Bowlby
Interventions for a highly emotional, temporary state in which individuals overcame by feelings of anxiety, grief, confusion, or pain are unable to act in a realistic normal manner
Crisis Counseling
Intentional response which helps an individual in a crisis situation
Crisis Counseling
Fear or anxiety caused by the sudden realization of danger
Alarm
The intentional infliction of physical or psychological harm on another
Aggression
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
AIDS
According to client centered counseling, the necessary quality of a counselor being in touch with reality and with others’ perception of one’s self
Congruence
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
A family government where the mother or female possesses power and the right of decision making
Matriarchal Family
A must behavior of a people enforced by those elected govern
Law
A rule of action prescribed by an authority able to enforce its will
Law
The offspring or children of a specific set of parents
Issue
The change from individual crafting of products to the manufacturing of goods through mass production
Industrialization
To assist understanding of the circumstances of situations an individual is experiencing and to assist that person in the selection of an alternative adjustment if necessary
Facilitate
Persons are usually conscious of the relationship of the reaction to the death, but the reaction to the current experience is excessive and disabling
Exaggerated Grief - Worden
The study of death
Thanatology
A process involving all activities associated with final disposition
Funeralization
Sincere feelings for the person who is trying to adjust to a serious loss
Sympathy
Two or more people, unrelated by either blood or marriage who are sharing living quarters together
Co-Habitants
A grouping of people with similar socioeconomic status
Class
A division of a culture, connected to a larger culture by common traits, while having unique traits of its own
Subcultures
Any action performed during a rite which may or may not have symbolic meaning to the participants or observers of the action
Ceremony (ritual)
Inhibited, suppressed, or postponed response to a loss
Delayed Grief - Worden
A governing system characterized by specialization, hierarchy, formal rules, impersonality, and a specialized administrative staff
Bureaucratization
A family unit consisting of one male and one female, their children together, and any children from previous marriages
Blended Family
Blocking of threatening material from consciousness
Repression
Existential statements about the physical and social world
Beliefs
A situation in which a person or entity is unknown
Anonymity
A household unit consisting of one mother, one father, all their unmarried children, their sons, sons’ wives, and their children
Extended (Joint) Family
The belief that one’s own race, nation, group or culture is superior to all others
Ethnocentrism
A group of people who are recognized as a distinct group on the basis of such characteristics as language, ancestry, or religion
Ethnic
A defense mechanism used in grief to return to more familiar and often more primitive modes of coping
Regression
A rite performed with the body present
Funeral
Dealing with agriculture; farm based
Agrarian
