Question | Answer |
An irrational, exaggerated fear of death | Thanatophobia |
the region of th emind that is beyond awareness especially impulses and desires not directly known to a person | Unconscious |
spoken or oral communication | Verbal Communication |
the ability to be considerate and friendly as dmeonstrated by both verbal and non-verbal behaviors | Warmth and Caring (Wolfelt) |
the killing of one human being by another | Homicide |
that counseling which occurs before a death takes place | Pre-Need Counseling |
attribution of one's unacceptable thoughts, feelings, or behaviors to someone else | Projection |
negative attitude towards others based on their gender, religion, race, or membership is a particular group | Prejudice |
a deliberate attempt to change attitudes or beliefs with information and arguments | Persuasion |
expressing a thought or idea in an alternate and sometimes a shortened form | Paraphrasing |
a relatively stable system of determining tendencies within an individual | Personality |
a strong emotion ccharacterized by sudden and extreme fear | Panic |
Choice of actions provided through counseling as a means of solving the counselee's problems | Option |
Historically an inn for travleers, especially one kept by a religious order; used to indicate a concept designed to treat patients with a life-limiting condition | Hospice |
detailed examples of adjustments, choices or alternatives available to the client or counselors from which a course or action may be selected | Illustrating |
counseling in which a counselor shares a body of special information with a counselee | Informational Counseling |
social attraction to another person | Interpersonal Attraction |
any event, person or object that lessens the degree of pain in grief | Mitigation |
a document which governs the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment from an individual in the event of an incurable condition that will cause death when such person is no longer able to make decisions regarding his.her medical treatment | Living Will |
occur when persons experience symptoms and behaviors which cause them difficulty but they do not see or recognize the fact that these are related to the loss | Masked Grief (Wolfelt) |
an adjustment process which involves grief or sorrow over a period of time and helps in the reorganization of the life of an individual following a loss or death of someone beloved | Mourning |
The process that initiates, directs, adn sustains behavior satisfying physiological or psychological needs | Motivation |
that which is expresses by posture, facial expressions, actions, physical behavior, that which is communicated by menas other than verbally | Non-Verbal Communication |
non-directive method of counseling which stresses the inherent worth of the client and the natural capacity for growth and health | Person-Centered (Client Counseling) |
Grief extending over a long period of time without resolution | Abnormal Grief (Comlicated, Unresolved) |
the intense physical and emotional expression of grief occurring as the awareness increases of a loss of someone or something significant | Acute Grief |
feelings and their expression | Affect |
a learned tendency to respond to people, objects, or institution in a positive or negative way | Attitude |
the individual's ability to adjust to the psychological and emotional changes brought on by a stressful event such as the death of a significant other | Adaptation |
the intention infliction of physical or psychological harm on another | Aggression |
those appropriate and helpful acts of counseling that come after the funeral | After Care |
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome | AIDS |
blame directed at another person | Anger |
the state of estrangement an individual feels in social settings that are viewed as foreign, unpredictable or unacceptable | Alienation |
providing a choice of services and merchandise available as families make a selection and complete funeral arrangements, formulating different actions in adjusting to a crisis | Alternatives |
a state of tension, typically characterized by rapid heartbeat, shortness of breath and other ramifications of autonomic nervous system | Anxiety |
the tendency in human beings to make strong affectional bonds for security and safety | Attachment (Bowlby) |
giving undivided attention by means of verbal and non-verbal behavior | attending (listening) |
the act or event of separation or loss that results in the experience of grief | Bereavement |
a type of grief, excessive in duration and never coming to a satisfactory conclusion | Chronic Grief |
term used to describe the experience of grief, especially in young parents, where customs are unclear due to inappropriate death and the absence of prior bereavment experience | Anomic Grief |
presence of grief in anticipation of death or loss; the actual death comes as confirmation | Anticipatory Grief |