Final Quiz: Week 8 Flashcards
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What is bereavement?
An objective fact that occurs when someone close to us dies.
What does bereavement signify in terms of status changes?
Changes such as a child becoming an orphan, a wife a widow, or a husband a widower.
What is large-scale bereavement?
An outcome of large-scale social phenomena such as natural disasters or wars.
Define grief.
A painful response to bereavement affecting how the survivor feels, thinks, eats, sleeps, and copes.
How does grief affect physical health?
Can lead to acute grief symptoms like tightness in throat, shortness of breath, and prolonged stressor effects like increased risk of disorders.
What are common personal and interpersonal effects of grief?
Confusion, insomnia, attention problems, anxiety, and waves of rage.
What is mourning?
The culturally patterned expression of the bereaved person’s thoughts and feelings.
How does mourning reflect culture?
It reflects local, regional, national, ethnic, and religious cultures at particular points in history.
What is normal grief?
Grief that stays within the bounds of a particular culture.
What characterizes complicated grief?
The bereaved person does not move from shock and pain toward a fulfilling life.
What is integrated grief?
The type of grief most parents achieve after the death of a child.
Define traumatic grief.
A severe and disabling response to sudden and often violent death.
What is anticipatory grief?
Grief that has become more common as people live longer with life-threatening conditions.
What is resolved grief?
Movement toward recovery from the most debilitating effects of grief.
What is unresolved grief?
Debilitating effects of grief that continue longer than expected.
What is hidden grief?
Hiding any signs of grief to appear as ‘normal’ as possible.
What is disenfranchised grief?
Occurs when society does not recognize a person’s right to grieve.
What does the Grief-Work Theory (Freud) suggest?
Grief is an adaptive response to loss, requiring acceptance of the reality of death.
What is the basic goal of Bowlby’s Attachment Theory?
To maintain the security provided by the significant relationship.
What are Parkes’ three basic components of grief-work?
- Preoccupation with thoughts of the deceased person
- Repeatedly going over the loss experience
- Attempts to explain the loss
What does the Stage Theory of grief imply?
It suggests there are stages in the grieving process, but stages can vary by theory.
What does the Meaning-Making Perspective emphasize?
Finding meaning in what happened is the best predictor of how people deal with grief.
What is the Dual-process model of coping with bereavement?
It regards practical adaptations and emotional processing as important for adjustment.
What does the Continuing Bonds Theory suggest?
Grief doesn’t mean detaching from the deceased; emotional ties often remain.
