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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Grief in which there appears to be no signs of grief in a person following a major bereavement. | Absent Grief |
| The intense physical and emotional expression of grief occurring as the awareness increases of a loss of someone or something significant. | Acute Grief |
| 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 |
| A funeral rite that is adjusted to the needs and wants of those directly involved; one which has been altered to suit the trends of the times. | Adaptive Funeral Rite |
| External expression of emotion. | Affect |
| Dealing with agriculture; farm based. | Agrarian |
| The intentional infliction of physical or psychological harm on another. | Agression |
| 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 |
| Blame directed toward another person. | Anger |
| 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 Impact of death through medical control of disease and social co | Anomic Grief |
| A situation in which a person or entity is unknown. | Anonymity |
| Syndrome characterized by the presence of grief in anticipation of death or loss; the actual death comes as a confirmation of knowledge of a life-limiting condition. | Anticipatory Grief |
| A death has occurred and the funeral director is counseling with the family as they select the services and items of merchandise in completing arrangements for the funeral service of their choice. | At-Need Counseling |
| tendency in human beings to make strong affectional bounds with others coming from the need for security and safety; attachment occurs in the absence of the reinforcement of drives for food and sex and provides a way to understand the strong emotional rea | Attachment Theory (Bowlby) |
| The act or event of separation or loss that results in the experience of the emotion of grief. | Bereavement |
| To place responsibility for fault or error. | Blame |
| Membership consists of one male and one female and the children from their previous marriages and may include children from the present marriage. | Blended Family |
| The creation of a system which govern through departments and subdivisions managed by sets of officials following an inflexible routine. | Bureaucratization |
| Similar to ritual but it may, or may not, have symbolic content. | Ceremony |
| An instrumental action dealing with death, that is also expressional and that may or may not be charged with symbolic content expressing, among other things, the attitudes of the participants and possible onlookers (passive participants) who may be regard | Ritual |
| Grief in which the reaction is one that is excessive in duration and never comes to a satisfactory conclusion. | Chronic Grief |
| A legal relationship between two people of the same gender. | Civil Union |
| A social grouping in which members possess roughly equivalent culturally valued attributes. | Class |
| A phrase coined by Carl Rogers to refer to that type of counseling where one comes actively and voluntarily to gain help on a problem, but without any notion of surrendering his own responsibility for the situations; a non-directive method of counseling w | Client-Centered (Non-Directive; Rogerian; Person-Centered) Counseling |
| A depression so severe as to be considered abnormal, either because of no obvious environmental causes, or because the reaction to unfortunate life circumstances is more intense or prolonged than would generally be expected. | Clinical Depression |
| The study of the origins and consequences of thoughts, memories, beliefs, perceptions, explanations and other mental processes. | Cognition |
| Two unrelated adults sharing the same living quarters. | Cohabitants |
| The rite of finality in a funeral service preceding cremation, earth burial, entombment or burial at sea. | Committal Service |
| Grief that interferes with life functions extending over a long period of time without resolution. | Complicated (Abnormal / Unresolved) Grief |
| action in accord with prevailing social standards, attitudes, practices, etc. | Conformity |
| The agreement between true feelings or thoughts and one's actions or words. | Congruence |
| Agreement between group members about a decision. | Consensus |
| Living or happening in the same period. | Contemporary |
| Charactistic ways of responding to stress. | Coping |
| The individual seeking assistance or guidance. | Counselee |
| Any time someone helps someone else with a problem. | Jackson |
| A therapeutic experience for reasonably healthy persons. Do not confuse this with Psychotherapy which is treatment for emotionally disturbed persons, who seek, or are referred for assistance with pathological problems. A counselor's clients are encouraged | Ohlsen |
| Good communication within and between men; or good (free) communication within or between men is always therapeutic. | Rogers |
| Advice, especially that given as a result of consultation. | Webster |
| The individual providing assistance and guidance. | Counselor |
| A highly emotional temporary state in which an individual's feelings of anxiety grief, confusion or pain impair his or her ability to act. | Crisis |
| Interventions for a highly emotional, temporary state in which individuals, overcome by feelings of anxiety, grief, confusion or pain are unable to act in a realistic, normal manner. Intentional responses which help individuals in a crisis situation. | Crisis Counseling |
| The process by which a person or group's language and/or culture come to resemble those of another group. | Cultural Assimilation |
| The emotional attitude that all cultures are equal and pertinent. | Cultural Relativism |
| Common traits or patterns found in all cultures. | Cultural Universal |
| Consists of abstract patterns (the rules, ideas, beliefs shared by members of society) of and for living and dying, which are learned directly or indirectly. | Culture |
| Social behavior as dictated by the tradition of the people. | Custom |
| A learned emotional response to death-related phenomenon which is characterized by extreme apprehension. | Death Anxiety |
| Grief whereby the mourner does not experience the emotional reaction in proportion to the loss, and at a later time experiences a degree of emotional reaction in excess of that expected to some other incident/loss. | Delayed Grief |
| Pertaining to demography; the science of vital statistics, or of births, deaths, marriages, etc. of populations. | Demographic |
| The defense mechanism by which a person refuses to see things as they are because such facts are threatening to the ego; a defense mechanism, closely related to repression, in which the individual simply denies the existence of the events that have arouse | Denial |
| A condition of general emotional dejection and withdrawal; sadness greater and more prolonged than that warranted by any objective reason. | Depression |
| A person licensed by the state to dispose of human remains without formal viewing, visitation or ceremony. | Direct Disposer |
| The acquiring of the culture by a person through deliberate instruction by other members of the society. | Direct Learning |
| Counselor takes a live speaking role, asking questions, suggesting courses of action, etc. | Directive Counseling |
| Treating members of groups differently in circumstances where their rights or treatment should be identical. | Discrimination |
| Grief which is not acknowledged by society. | Disenfranchised Grief |
| A defense mechanism in which anger is redirected toward a person or object other than the one who provided the anger originally. | Displaced Aggression |
| Redirection of emotion to other targets. | Displacement |
| Two units regarded as a pair; for example, husband and wife. | Dyad |
| In marriage, to hold that both male and female have equal rights, duties, and governing power. | Egalitarian Family |
| An unconscious mental process used by the ego to defned against anxiety. | Ego Defense Mechanisms |
| The outward expression or display of mood or feeling states. | Emotion |
| The method by which the social values are internalized (learned). | Enculturation (Socialization) |
| Designating or of any of the basic divisions or groups of mankind, or distinguished by customs, characteristics, language, etc. | Ethnic |
| The emotional attitude that one's own race, nation, group, or culture is superior to all others. | Ethnocentrism |
| An act or practice of allowing the death of persons suffering from a life-limiting condition. | Euthanasia |
| Excessive grief responses whereby the response is so overwhelming, that some psychiatric disorder develops.; Grief response which is far greater in proportion to the perceived loss. | Exaggerated Grief |
| Membership within household includes father and mother, all their children (except married daughters), their son's wives and children (except married daughters). | Extended (Joint) Family |
| To assist understanding of the circumstances or situations the individual is experiencing, and to assist that person in the selection of an alternative adjustment if necessary. | Facilitate |
| The family into which one is born. | Family of Orientation |
| The family established by one's marriage and the production of children. | Family of Procreation |
| Behaviors which are construed as somewhat less compulsive than mores of the same society, and do not call for a strong reaction from the society if violated. | Folkways |
| The school of psychological thought which proposed that the function, not the structure, of conscious experience should be studied. | Functionalism |
| An organized, flexible, purposeful, group centered, time-limited response to death which reflects reverence, dignity, and respect. | Funeral |
| An all-inclusive term used to encompass all funeral and/or memorial services. | Funeral Rite |
| A process involving all activities associated with funeral rites and/or final disposition. | Funeralization |
| An emotion or set of emotions due to a loss that is involved in the work of mourning. | Grief |
| Helping people facilitate grief to a healthy resolution. | Grief Counseling |
| A process occurring with loss aimed at loosening the attachment to the dead for re-investment in the living. | Grief Work |
| Blame directed toward one's self based on real or unreal conditions. | Guilt |
| The killing of one human being by another. | Homicide |
| Historically, an inn for travelers, especially one kept by a religious order; also used to indicate an institution designed to treat patients with a life limiting condition. | Hospice |
| A funeral rite that is in essence devoid of religious connotation. | Humanistic Funeral Rite |
| Any disposition of a human remains which is completely devoid of any form of funeral rite at the time of disposition. | Immediate Disposition |
| A process by which a person learns the norms of his or her culture by observations of others in his or her society. | Indirect Learning |
| Specifically in sociology, the change from independent multi-talented, self-sufficient family units to employment of family members in jobs outside the unit, making them dependent on outside resources for their total needs.; the change in which the indivi | Industrialization |
| Counseling in which a counselor shares a body of special information with a counselee. | Informational Counseling |
| Relative, generally a blood relative. | Issue |
| A must-behavior not necessarily a basic or important pattern of a people (related to death) but one which is enforced by those governing. | Law |
| the ability to lead | Leadership |
| Symbolic objects that the survivor keeps and which provides a means through which the relationship with the deceased can be maintained and continued external of memory. | Linking Object |
| Grief responses in which the individual experiences a symptom or behaviour but does not see them as being related to the loss. | Masked Grief |
| The family pattern in which the mother or oldest adult female possesses power and the right of decision-making. | Matriarchal |
| Funeral rites with the body not present | Memorial Service |
| Any event, person or object that lessens the degree of pain in grief. | Mitigation |
| The state of being mobile; specifically in sociology, the ability to move from place to place readily, or to move from class to class, either upward or downward. | Mobility |
| Of, or characteristic of, the present or recent times; not ancient; often used to designate certain contemporary tendencies. | Modern |
| Clusters of two or more nuclear families who are united by social bonds for protection, security and help; a family unit created by related nuclear families and/or friendships. | Modified Extended (Modified Nuclear) Family |
| Must-behavior; the basic and important patterns of ideas and acts of a people as related to treatment of the dead which calls for a strong reaction from the society if violated. | Mores |
| The process that initiates, directs, and sustains behavior satisfying physiological or psychological needs. | Motivation |
| 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 loved. | Mourning |
| The tendency of off-spring to move away from the area in which they were born. | Neo-localism |
| A funeral rite which deviates from the normal or prescribed circumstances of established custom. | Non-traditional Funeral Rite |
| A group held belief about how members should behave in a given context. | Norms |
| Membership within household includes one man, one woman, and their children, if any. | Nuclear Family |
| dutiful or submissive compliance. | Obedience |
| Choice of actions provided through counseling as a means of solving the client or counselee's dilemma. | Option |
| In marriage, the father rules the family, specifically in sociology, the patriarch, the father, and the ruler of the family or tribe; a man of great age and dignity; the oldest individual of a class or group. | Patriarchal Family |
| A relatively stable system of determining tendencies within an individual. | Personality |
| According to Carl Rogers, accepting the client or counsel as he or she is, and for what he or she is without imposing judgements or stipulations | Positive Regard |
| Those appropriate and helpful acts of counseling that come after the funeral. | Post-Need (Post-Funeral) Counseling |
| Negative attitude towards others based on their gender, religion, race or membership in a particular group. | Prejudice |
| Designating or of a culture developed before the invention of writing and, hence, leaving no written records. | Pre-Literate Society |
| That counseling which occurs before a death. | Pre-Need Counseling |
| A funeral rite which may be construed as being identifiable with a pre-literate society. | Primitive Funeral Rite |
| Attribution of one's unacceptable thoughts, feelings or behaviors to someone else. | Projection |
| A relation of harmony, conformity, accord or affinity established in any human interaction. | Rapport |
| Supplying a logical, rational, socially acceptable reason rather than the real reason for an action. | Rationalization |
| A defensive mechanism by which people behave in a way opposite to what their true but anxiety-provoking feelings would dictate. | Reaction Formation |
| A defense mechanism used in grief to return to more familiar and often more primitive modes of coping. | Regression |
| A culturally entrenched pattern of behavior made up of: 1) sacred beliefs, 2) emotional feelings accompanying the beliefs, and 3) overt conduct presumably implementing the beliefs and feelings | Religion |
| Blocking of threatening material from consciousness. | Repression |
| An adaptive maneuver characterized by an inability or unwillingness to act with the aim of asserting or sustaining individual control, autonomy or self-esteem. | Resistance |
| According to Simos, a compelling need by which the individual attempts to restore inner psychological equilibrium, uniting past, present, and future in the cycle from loss and the fear of loss to restitution. | Restitution |
| Any event performed in a solemn and prescribed manner. | Rite |
| Ceremonies centering around transition in life from one status to another (ex: Baptism, marriage, and the funeral). | Rites of Passage |
| Specified methods of procedure. | Rules |
| The relatively stable set of perceptions each individual holds of himself or herself. | Self-Concept |
| The degree of regard a person holds for himself. | Self-Esteem |
| A prediction or expectation of an event that makes the outcome more likely to occur than would otherwise. | Self-Fulfilling Prophecy |
| The assumption of blame directed toward one's self by others. | Shame |
| Membership consists of one adult, either male or female, and his/her children. | Single Parent Family |
| Related to specific situations in life that may create crises and produce human pain and suffering. This type of counseling adds another dimension to the giving of information in that it deals with significant feelings that are produced by life crises. | Situational Counseling |
| The action of a member of the group to compare him/her self to others in the group. | Social Comparison |
| A phenomenon that occurs when an individual's performance improves because of the presence of others. | Social facilitation |
| An event which allows those who have something in common with each other to deal with one-another in regard to that which they share. | Social Function |
| Movement of a person or family within social classes of their society. | Social Mobility |
| The field of Psychology that seeks to understand how behavior effects others. | Social Psychology |
| Categorization of people by money, prestige, and power; a ranking of social status (position) in groups such as upper, middle, and lower class. | Social Stratification |
| The method by which the social values of the funeral rite are internalized (learned). | Socialization (Enculturation) |
| A group of persons forming a single community with some interests in common. | Society |
| The study of social groups; their internal forms or modes of organization, the processes that tend to maintain or change these forms of organizations, and the relations between groups. | Sociology |
| The mental and physical condition that occurs when a person must adjust or adapt to the environment. | Stress |
| Any event capable of producing physical or emotional stress. | Stressor |
| A division, or smaller identifiable unit of a culture, connected to that culture by common traits, having unique traits to itself. | Subculture |
| Redirection of emotion to culturally or socially useful purposes. | Sublimation (grief) |
| Also known as S.I.D.S. and Crib Death; the sudden and unexpected death of an apparently healthy infant, which remains unexplained after a complete autopsy and a review of the circumstances around the death. | Sudden Infant Death Syndrome |
| An unsuccessful attempt made by the person to end his or her own life. | Suicidal Gesture |
| A deliberate act of self-destruction. | Suicide |
| A more or less conscious postponement of addressing anxieties and concerns. | Suppression |
| Guilt felt by the survivors. | Survivor Guilt |
| Anything to which socially created meaning is given; an object or act that represents a belief or idea. | Symbol |
| A social prohibition of certain acts. | Taboos |
| The study of death, especially the medical, emotional, and final problems associated with dying. | Thanatology |
| An abnormally great fear of death. | Thanatophobia |
| the treatment of psychological disorders or maladjustments by a professional technique, as psychoanalysis, group therapy, or behavioral therapy. | Therapy |
| Grief in which the person is clearly grieving, but when you meet them you are struck by the expression of one particular emotion. | Unbalanced Grief |
| The change from rural to urban in character; to make like or characteristic of a city. | Urbanization |
| Time set aside for friends and relatives to pay respect for the deceased prior to the funeral service. | Visitation |
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