THANATOLOGY
Abnormal (complicated, unresolved) grief - Answer- grief extending over a long period of time without resolution.
Absent Grief - Answer- Grief in which there appears to be no signs of grief in a person following a major bereavement.
Acute Grief - Answer- The intense physical an...
THANATOLOGY
Abnormal (complicated, unresolved) grief - Answer- grief extending over a long
period of time without resolution.
Absent Grief - Answer- Grief in which there appears to be no signs of grief in a
person following a major bereavement.
Acute Grief - Answer- The intense physical and emotional expression of grief
occurring as the awareness increases of a loss of
someone or something significant.
Adaptation - Answer- 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.
Affect - Answer- Is the feelings and their expression.
Aftercare (post-funeral counseling) - Answer- those appropriate and helpful acts of
counseling that come after the funeral
Agression - Answer- The intentional infliction of physical or psychological harm on
another.
Alarm - Answer- Is defined as fear or anxiety caused by the sudden realization of
danger created by the impact of the shock.
Alienation - Answer- The state of estrangement an individual feels in social settings
that are viewed as foreign, unpredictable or unacceptable.
Alternatives - Answer- 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.
Ambiguous Response - Answer- A disconfirming response with more than one
meaning, leaving the other party unsure of the responder's position.
Anger - Answer- Is blame directed toward another person.
Anomic Grief - Answer- Is a 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 the impact of death through medical control of
disease and social control of those who deal with the dying and the dead.
, Anticipatory Grief - Answer- 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.
Anxiety - Answer- A state of tension, typically characterized by rapid heartbeat,
shortness of breath and, other similar ramifications of arousal of the autonomic
nervous system; an emotion characterized by a vague fear or premonition that
something undesirable is going to happen.
Articulation - Answer- The process of pronouncing all the necessary parts of a word.
At-Need Counseling - Answer- A death has occurred and the funeral director is
advising the family from the time the death occurs until the final disposition including
selection of services and merchandise during the arrangement conference.
Attachment (Bowlby) - Answer- It is the 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 reaction that occurs when these
bonds are threatened or broken
Attending (listening) - Answer- The process of focusing on certain stimuli from the
environment.
Attitude - Answer- a learned tendency to respond to people, objects, or institutions in
a positive or negative way.
Behaviorism - Answer- The school of psychological thought that views learning as
the most important aspect of an organism's development. Behaviorism seeks to
objectively measure behavior and the way in which stimulus-response relationships
are formed.
Bereavement - Answer- The act or event of separation or loss that results in the
experience of grief.
Biological Psychology - Answer- The school of psychological thought in which all our
behaviors can be traced to the biological functions of the brain. Therefore most of
our behaviors are caused by the chemicals of our physical body.
Ceremony - Answer- A formal or symbolic act or observance.
Channel - Answer- The medium through which a message passes from sender to
receiver.
Chronic Grief - Answer- Grief in which the reaction is one that is excessive in
duration and never comes to a satisfactory conclusion.
Client-Centered (Non-Directive; Rogerian; Person-Centered) Counseling - Answer- 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
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