Dying and Bereavement

Question 1

A feeling of anxiety or even the fear of death and dying.

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Death Anxiety

Question 2

The study of death, dying, grief, bereavement and social attitudes towards the stated issues.

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Thanatology

Question 3

A death characterized by a lack of heartbeat and respiration.

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Clinical Death

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A death declared only when the deceased meets eight criteria.

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Whole-brain Death

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When was the eight criteria to determine Whole-brain Death made?

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1981

Question 6

A situation or state wherein a person’s cortical functioning ceases while brainstem activity continues.

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Persistent Vegetative State

Question 7

A study of the interface between human values and technological advances in health and life sciences.

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Bioethics

Question 8

The praactice of ending life for reasons of mercy.

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Euthanasia

Question 9

A type of euthanasia wherein it’s a deliberate ending of someone’s life, and may be based on a clear statement of the person’s wishes, or a decision made by someone with the legal authority to do so.

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Active Euthanasia

Question 10

A type of euthanasia wherein you are allowing a person to die by withholding available treatment.

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Passive Euthanasia

Question 11

Procedure in which a physician provides a dying person with a fatal dose of medication that the individual themself administers.

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Physician-assisted Suicide

Question 12

A state or condition caused by loss through death.

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Bereavement

Question 13

Sorrow, hurt, anger, guilt, confusion and other feelings that arise after suffering a loss.

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Grief

Question 14

The ways in which people express their grief.

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Mourning

Question 15

A theory that addresses te issue of why people engage in certain behaviors to achieve particular psychological states based on their deeply rooted concerns about mortality.

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Terror Management Theory

Question 16

At what age do children realize that death is permanent?

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5-7 years old

Question 17

What stage of Piaget’s theory permits children to understand that death is final and permanent?

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Concrete-Operational

Question 18

Children show their grief in a way wherein they experience sleep difficulties, bedwetting, headaches and exhibit a refusal to eat.

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Somatic

Question 19

Children show their grief in a way wherein they experience emotional distress, separation anxiety, guilt, and learning difficulties.

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Intrapsychic

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Children show their grief in a way wherein they exhibit explosive emotions, tend to act out, have temper tantrums and other delinquent activity.

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Behavioral

Question 21

These adults tend to be more intense in their feelings toward death because they are just beginning to pursue the family, career and personal goals they have set.

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Emerging Adults

Question 22

A more common form of grief among bereaved parents than in other groups, most likely due to the very different nature of the parent-child relationship.

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Prolonged Grief

Question 23

The loss of a child in young adulthood may result in a lower ____ ______ in late life.

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Lower Cognitive Functioning

Question 24

Black parents are more likely to experience the death of a child due to a lack of…?

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Access to Medical Care

Question 25

A type of therapy that is an especially effective intervention to help bereaved people make sense of the loss and deal with their other feelings and thoughts.

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Cognitive-behavioral Therapy

Question 26

An active process through which a person must: - Acknowledge the reality of the loss - Work through the emotional turmoil - Adjust to an environment without the presence of the deceased - Loosen ties to the diseased

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Grief

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The proponent of the Stages of Grief.

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Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

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**STAGES OF GRIEF:** The stage where your sense of reality has shifted completely. There is not only an attempt to pretend the loss does not exist, but also an attempt to understand what is happening.

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**STAGE 1:** Denial

Question 29

**STAGES OF GRIEF:** The stage where it may leave you isolated in your grieving experience, causing you to be perceived as unapprochable to others. The emotion felt within this stage tends to be the **first thing we feel** when starting to release emotions related to loss.

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**STAGE 2:** Anger

Question 30

**STAGES OF GRIEF:** The stage where there is an acute awareness of our humanness when we realize there is nothing we can do to influence, change, or create a better end result.

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**STAGE 3:** Bargaining

Question 31

**STAGES OF GRIEF:** The stage where you focus on your personal faults or regrets - looking back at interactions with the person and noting everything that may have caused them pain. This comes from a **feeling of helplessness**.

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**STAGE 3:** Bargaining

Question 32

**STAGES OF GRIEF:** The stage where it does not require you to be very vulnerable, however it may feel more socially acceptable than admitting that you are scared.

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**STAGE 2:** Anger

Question 33

**STAGES OF GRIEF:** The stage where there is an attempts to slow the process of grief down, taking you through it one step at a time rather than risk the potential of **feeling overwhelmed** by your emotions.

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**STAGE 1:** Denial

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**STAGES OF GRIEF:** The stage where one’s imaginations calm down, and one is able to slowly start to look at the reality of the present situation.

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**STAGE 4:** Depression

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**STAGES OF GRIEF:** A very natural stage in the grieving process that can be extremely isolating and difficult as you deal with your emotions after the loss.

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**STAGE 4:** Depression

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**STAGES OF GRIEF:** The stage where one might find themselves less sociable, and reaching out less to others about one’s loss.

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**STAGE 4:** Depression

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**STAGES OF GRIEF:** The emotional survival tactics are less likely to be present during this phase of the grieving process.

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**STAGE 5:** Acceptance

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The newest disorder to be added to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

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Prolonged Grief Disorder

Question 39

A treatment that incorporates components of Cognitive-Behaviroral Therapy (**CBT**) and other approaches to help adapt to the loss.

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Complicated Grief Treatment

Question 40

Michael — an **18 year old** boy — lost his younger sister, Elizabeth, in a freak accident **6 months ago**. He feels **emotionally numb**, as if **life is meaningless**, and has **difficulty reintigrating** back into his school life. What is the diagnosis? A) Prolonged Grief Disorder B) Normal process of Grieving C) Michael’s bereavement may just be taking longer

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**A) Prolonged Grief Disorder**

Question 41

For a diagnosis of prolonged grief disorder, the loss of a loved one had to have occured at least _____ for adults, and ______ ago for children and adolescents.

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ADULTS: 1 year ago CHILDREN and ADOLESCENTS: 6 months ago