Midterm

Question 1

grief expressed through cultures

Answer 1

tears
anger
personal disorganization
lamentation
depressed affect
difficulty w/normal activities

Question 2

in what situation might death be a relief

Answer 2

bad marriage
abusive relationship
long-term caregiving

Question 3

in classical psychoanalytic terms (freud)

Answer 3

detachment
internalization
hypercathexis
grief work
cathexis
decathexis
introjection

Question 4

Lindemanne & Park 5 psychological/somatic symptoms

Answer 4

somatic distress
preoccupation
guilt
hostility
loss of usual patterns of behavior

Question 5

Park (beliefs about grief)

Answer 5

bereaved can work through grief in short amount of time
stigma of person- tainted by death
deprivation
grief is "taking too long"
keep busy-get out

Question 6

Bowlby (attachment/security evidenced by

Answer 6

clinging
crying
angry coercion
grieving

Question 7

lindemanne/bowlby the grief process

Answer 7

yearning
searching
disorganization
reorganization

Question 8

confronting negative thoughts

Answer 8

more negative emotions
depression
malfunctioning
little evidence of better outcomes

Question 9

detachment from grief

Answer 9

better outcomes
distress/depression not universal
humor is therapeutic
failure to experience distress- not pathological

Question 10

social functional approach (bonano/ketner)

recovery most likely when

Answer 10

emotions focused on pain/negative thoughts minimized
positive emotions enhanced
emotions are ephemeral (short-term)
greif is enduring state (up to 8 years)

Question 11

social functional approach

focusing on negative

Answer 11

impedes functioning
more severe grief
health problems
disrupted relationships
pessimism
hoplelessness

Question 12

social functional approach

positive emotions

Answer 12

improve social relationships
positive responses from others
positive facial expressions

Question 13

post-modern constructionist

view of grief

Answer 13

bonds w/deceased- enriched functioning
multiplicity of perspectives- different experiences
vacillating between avoiding/engaging in grief work

Question 14

torill

Answer 14

emotions w/out being engulfed

stop focusing on pain when grief too much

Question 15

variables of grief

Answer 15

personal family characteristics
concurrent stressors
relationship w/deceased
nature of death

Question 16

other losses we mourn

Answer 16

relationship
dream
home
job
country

Question 17

post modern social constructionist

Answer 17

acknowledges multiplicity of perspectives
individual struggles their own
vacillating between avoiding/engaging in grief work

Question 18

meaning

Answer 18

making sense of the loss
finding benefits (eg growth)

Question 19

kubler-ross (five stages of dying)

Answer 19

shock/denial
anger/resentment/guilt
bargaining
depression
acceptance

Question 20

kastenbaum (criticism)

Answer 20

no stages
no linear direction
description vs one way
totality of coping
influences

Question 21

grief tasks model

Answer 21

accepting reality of loss
experience the pain of grief
adjusting to environment without withdrawing from emotional energy from past relationship

Question 22

growth oriented model (schneider)

Answer 22

awareness
acceptance
reformulation

Question 23

pining

Answer 23

searching
intense psychological pain
separation anxiety
anger
guilt
depression

Question 24

phases of grief

Parkes

Answer 24

protest
despair
realization/reorganization

Question 25

phases of grief | rando

Answer 25

avoidance confrontation accommodation

Question 26

phases of grief | stroebe

Answer 26

integrative | dual process

Question 27

phases of grief | rando, stroebe, weiss

Answer 27

process of mourning

Question 28

researchers agree/phases (bozarth/rando)

Answer 28

avoidance confrontation accommodation

Question 29

integrative theory of bereavement

Answer 29

``` shock awareness of loss conservation/withdrawal healing renewal ```

Question 30

dual process model | Loss

Answer 30

yearn cry confront emotions cling to past

Question 31

dual process model | restoration

Answer 31

learn new routines master new activities create new traditions fulfill new roles

Question 32

R Process Model

Answer 32

``` recognizing reacting to reminiscing relinquish readjusting reinventing ```

Question 33

excessive rumination

Answer 33

going over and over negative thoughts cant get it out of their mind prolonged distress

Question 34

ruminators are...

Answer 34

neurotic less mastery of lives beset by multiple negative events

Question 35

3 categories of complicated grief

Answer 35

separation distress traumatic distress somatic symptoms

Question 36

complicated grief associated with conflicted/dependent relationships

Answer 36

angry ambivalent abusive dependent

Question 37

antecedent variables to complicated grief

Answer 37

prior losses unaddressed stressors mental health problems perceived lack of social support

Question 38

physical problems of complicated grief

Answer 38

``` higher mortality appetite changes depression increased substance abuse loss of interest in sex ```

Question 39

psychological problems of complicated grief

Answer 39

``` increased somatic complaints anxiety depression insomnia self-injury ```

Question 40

symptoms of complicated grief

Answer 40

``` intrusive thoughts yearning excessive loneliness purposelessness difficulty acknowledging death shattered worldview excessive irritability symptoms > 6 months ```

Question 41

PTSD

Answer 41

recurrent distressing recollection sense event will happen again intense dreams of event intense psychological reactivity

Question 42

social ghosts

Answer 42

dream of them hear voices smell flowers other evocative senses

Question 43

adaptive coping strategies

Answer 43

accepting feelings of loss discovering meaning reorganizing id social relationships reinvesting

Question 44

problem focused coping

Answer 44

manage px distress | little research on effectiveness

Question 45

3 crisis periods (demi)

Answer 45

numbness/yearning disorganization reorganization

Question 46

deficit model of partner love (stroebe/stroebe) | concurrent negative stressors

Answer 46

gender age forewarning of loss social support

Question 47

resilience model

Answer 47

background characteristics adversity capacities mental/physical well being

Question 48

background characteristics

Answer 48

``` gender age developmental phase ethnicity nature of prior relationship ```

Question 49

adversity

Answer 49

accumulation (unresolved prior loss) | capacities

Question 50

resiliency

Answer 50

``` background characteristics personal capacities spirituality cultural capacities social environmental capacities family capacities culture/community capacities ```

Question 51

personal factors

Answer 51

``` assertiveness flexibility tenacity optimism distancing ability intelligence group consciousness ability to find meaning ```

Question 52

research-finding meaning

Answer 52

``` reordering priorities reconsider lives letting go of goals/finding new ones value in life storytelling/meaning ```

Question 53

well being

Answer 53

``` physical health social functioning mental health ongoing connections to deceased integration of loss growth ```