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WEEK 3C

Funeral Service Counseling

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Abnormal (complicated, unresolved) grief grief extending over a long period of time without resolution
Acute grief intense physical and emotional expression of grief occurring as the awareness increases of a loss of someone or something significant
Adaptation individual's ability to adjust to psychological and emotional changes brought on by a stressful event such as a death of a significant other
Affect feelings and their expression
Aftercare (post-funeral counceling) those appropriate and helpful acts of counseling that come after the burial
Aggression intentional infliction of physical or psychological harm on another
Alarm fear or anxiety caused by sudden realization of danger
Alienation state of estrangement an individual feels in social settings viewed as foreign, unpredictable or unacceptable
Alternatives choice of services and merchandise available as families make a selection and complete arrangements; formulating different actions in adjusting to a crisis
Anger blame directed toward another person
Anomic Grief 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; typical in a society that has attempted to minimize death
Anticipatory grief syndrome characterized by the presence of grief in anticipation of death or loss; actual death comes as a confirmation of life-limiting condition
Anxiety state of tension, typically characterized by rapid heartbeat and SOB; and emotion characterized by vague fear or premonition that something undesirable is going to happen
At-Need Counseling death has occurred and the funeral director is counselling with family as they select services and merch
Attachment theory was created by Bowlby
Attachment theory tendency in human to make strong affectional bonds with others coming from the need for security and safety
Attending (listening) giving undivided attention by means of verbal and non-verbal behavior
Bereavement act or event of separation or loss that results in the grieving esperience
Chronic Grief excessive in duration and never comes to satisfactory conclusion
Client-Centered Counseling is AKA and was coined by who Person-Centered Counceling; Carl Rogers
Client-Centered Counseling one comes actively and voluntarily to gain help on a problem but w/o any notion of surrendering his own responsibility for the situation; non-directive and stresses clients worth and capacity for growth and health
Cognitive "to Know"; study of the origins and consequences of thoughts, memories, beliefs, perceptions, explanations and other mental processes
Committal Service rite of finality in a funeral service preceding cremation, earth burial , entombment or burial at sea
Communication general term for exchange of information, feelings, thoughts and acts between two or more people ; both verbal and nonverbal
Complicated (unresolved, chronic) grief grief extending over a long period of time without resolve
Congruence according to client-centered counseling, the necessary quality of a counselor being in touch with reality and with others perceptions of one's self
Coping characteristics ways of responding to stress
Counselee individual seeking assistance
Webster's definition of Counseling advice, especially that given as a result of consulation
Jackson's definition of Counseling any time someone helps someone else with a problem
Rogers's definition of Counseling good communication within and between people; or good (free) communication between two people is always therapeutic
Ohlsen's definition of Counseling therapeutic experience for reasonably healthy persons; DO NOT confuse with psychotherapy
Psychotherapy treatment for emotionally disturbed persons who seek (or are referred for) assistance before they develop serious neurotic psychotic or character disorders
Counselor individual providing assistance
Crisis highly emotional temporary state in which individuals overcome feelings of anxiety, grief, confusion, or pain; are unable to act in a realistic normal manner;
Death anxiety learned emotional response to death-related phenomena which is characterized by extreme apprehension
Delayed grief Worden; inhibited, suppressed or postponed response to loss
Denial defense mechanism by which a person is unable or refuses to see things as they are because such facts are threatening to the self
Directive Counseling counselor takes a live speaking roll, asking questions, suggesting courses of action, etc
Discrimination treating members of various social groups differently in circumstances where their rights or treatment should be identical
Displaced aggression defense mechanism in which anger is redirected towards a person or object other than the one who provided the anger originally
Displacement redirection of emotion to other targets
Dyad two units regarded as a pair; EX: husband and wife
Ego defense mechanism unconscious, irrational means used by the ego to defend against anxiety
Emotion outward expression or display of mood or feelings
Wolfelt's definition of Empathy ability to enter into and share feelings of others
Emotional expression outward expression or delay of mood or feeling states
Euthanasia (Right to die) act or practice of allowing death of persons suffering from a life-limiting condition
Exaggerated Grief (Worden) persons are usually conscious of the relationship of the reaction to the death, but the reaction to the current experience is excessive and disabling
Facilitate assist understanding of the circumstances of situations of individual is experiencing, and to assist that person in the selection of an alternative adjustment if necessary
Fear strong emotion marked by such reactions as alarm, dread and disquiet
Focusing centering a client's thinking and feelings on the situation causing a problem and assisting the person in choosing the behavior adjustment to solve the problem
Frustration state of being prevented from attaining a purpose; thwarted; blocking of satisfaction by some kind of obstacle
Funeral Rite organized, flexible, purposeful, group-centered, time-limited response to death which reflects reverence, dignity and respect
Funeral Service Psychology study of human behavior as related to funeral service
Genuineness (Wolfelt) ability to present one's self sincerely
Goals adjustment, motivational in nature to be achieved
Grief an emotion or set of emotions due to a loss
Grief Counseling helping people facilitate uncomplicated grief to a a healthy completion of the tasks of grieving within a reasonable time frame
Grief Syndrome (Lindemann) set of symptoms associated with loss
Grief Therapy (Worden) specialized techniques used to help people with complicated grief reactions
Griefwork (Lindemann) process occurring with loss, aimed at loosening the attachment to the dead for reinvestment in the living
Guidance support or support system provided to the counselee who is seeking an alternative adjustment to problems
Guilt blame directed toward one's self based on real or unreal conditions
Homicide killing of one human by another
Hospice historically an inn for travelers, especially one kept by a religious order; also used to indicate a concept designed to treat patients with a life-limiting condition
Illustrating detailed examples of adjustments, choices or alternatives available to the client or counselee from which a course of action may be selected
Informational Counseling counseling in which a counselor shares a body of special information with a counselee
Interpersonal attraction social attraction to another person
Living will document which governs the withholding or withdraw of life-sustaining treatment from an individual in the event of an incurable or irreversible condition that will cause death
Masked Grief (Worden) occurs when persons experience symptoms and behaviors which cause them difficulty; do not see or recognize the fact that these are related to loss
Mitigation any event, person, or object that lessens the degree of pain in grief
Motivation process that initiates, directs, or sustains behavior satisfying psychological or physiological needs
Mourning an adjustment process that 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 loved
Non-Verbal Communication that which is expressed with posture, expression, action or behavior ; communicated without words
Option choice of actions provided through counseling as a means of solving counselee's dilema
Panic strong emotion characterized by sudden and extreme fear
Paraphrasing expressing a thought or idea in an alternate and sometimes shortened form
Personality relatively stable system of determining tendencies within an individual
Person Centered (Client Centered) Counseling rogers; counseling where one comes actively and voluntarily to gain help on a problem, but without any notion of surrendering responsibility for situation ; non directive method; stresses worth of client and ability to grow
Persuasion deliberate attempt to change attitudes or belief with info and arguments
Positive Regard Rogers; accepting the client or counselee as he or she is w/o imposing judgments or stipulations
Post Funeral Counseling/Aftercare appropriate and helpful acts of counseling that come after a funeral
Prejudice negative attitude towards others based on their gender, religion, race or membership to a group
Pre-Need Counseling counseling that occurs before death
Projection attribution of ones unacceptable thoughts, feelings, or behaviors to someone else
Psychiatrist medical dr with specialty in diagnosis and tx of mental disorders
Psychology study of human behavior
Psychotherapy (Jackson) intervention with people whose needs are so specific that usually they can only be met by specially trained physicians or psychologists; work with deeper levels of consciousness
Rapport relation of harmony, conformity, accord, or affinity established in any human interaction
Rationalization supplying a logical, socially acceptable reason rather than the reason for an action
Regression a defense mechanism used in grief to return to more familiar and more primitive modes of coping
Repression blocking of threatening material from consciousness
Resistance an adaptive maneuver characterized by an inability or unwillingness to act with the aim of asserting or sustaining individual control, autonomy or self-esteem
Respect (Wolfelt) ability to communicate the belief that everyone possesses the capacity and right to choose alternatives and make decisions
Restitution according to Simos, a compelling need by which an individual attempts to restore inner psychological equilibrium, uniting past, present and future in the cycle from loss and fear of loss to accpetance
Ritual act that is charge with symbolic content
Searching preoccupied with intense thoughts of the deceased
Shame assumption of blame directed towards one's self by others
Shock reaction of the body to an event; often experienced emotionally as a sudden, violent, and upsetting disturbance
Situational Counseling related to specific situations in life that may create crises and produce human pain and suffering ; adds another dimension to the giving of info in that it deals with significant feelings produced by life crises
Social Comparison making judgments about ourselves through comparison with others
Social Facilitation phenomenon that occurs when an individual's performance improves because of the presence of others
Stress life events and minor hassles that exert pressure or strain
Stressor any event capable of producing physical or emotional stress
Sublimation redirection of emotion to culturally or socially useful purposes
SIDS AKA: crib death; sudden and unexpected death of an apparently healthy infant which remains unexplained after complete autopsy and a review of circumstances around the death
Suicide deliberate act of killing oneself
Suicidal Gestrue unsuccessful attempt made by a person to end his or her life
Suicidal Ideation thoughts of ending one's life
Summary review of points covered in a portion of the counseling session
Suppression more or less conscious postponement of addressing anxieties and concerns
Survivor guilt guilt felt by family and friends after death
Sympathy sincere feelings for a person who is trying to adjust to a serious loss
Thanatology study of death
Thanatophobia irrational or exaggerated fear of death
Threat statement or action which creates anxiety in an individual's life
Verbal Communication spoken, oral communication
Warmth and Caring (Wolfelt) ability to be considerate and friendly as demonstrated by both verbal and nonverbal behavior
 

 



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