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WEEK 3C
Funeral Service Counseling
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |