What is religion? correct answers Religion is a broad term About what people hold sacred, what
matters more than anything, about power and meaning in relation to human destiny; specific set
of beliefs and practices, usually within an organized group
Characterized by Experience of sacredness
Myth or symbolic story
Ritual
Community
Religious leads/experts
What is grief? correct answers reaction to loss, highly variable: thoughts, feelings, physical,
behavioral, and spiritual responses
What is bereavement? correct answers the objective event of loss, deprivation, normal part of life
What is mourning? correct answers process by which the bereaved person integrates the loss into
their ongoing life: determined partly by social and cultural norms
What is normal grief? correct answers What is normal depends on the person and circumstance
What is complicated grief? correct answers Risks: sudden death, lengthy illness, child,
preventable, ambivalence, mental health, social support
Attempt to: deny repress or avoid loss/hold onto and not relinquish
What is disenfranchised grief? correct answers grief experienced in connection with a loss that is
not socially supported or acknowledged through usual rituals
, What is a stillbirth? correct answers sudden intrauterine death, occurs between twentieth week
and birth, resulting in the delivery of a dead baby
What is a miscarriage? correct answers Occurs prior to the twentieth week of pregnancy, aka
spontaneous abortion, loss of the products of conception before the fetus is viable, most are due
to chromosome abnoromalities
What a neonatal death? correct answers Occurs within the first 28 days following birth
What is SIDS? correct answers death of an apparently healthy infant usually before the age of 1
and unknown or no definitive causee
Who is diagnosed with SIDS? correct answers Defects in brain stem that undnermines serotonin
which helps with breathing
What are ways to prevent SIDS?- 5 Risk factors correct answers Low birth weight 2. Premature
birth 3. Mother's age less than 20 years
4. Maternal drug or smoking use 5. Soft bedding/overly cold/hot
environment
What are the 10 criteria of a good death? correct answers Natural death
Mature
Expected
Honorable
Prepared
Accepted
Civilized
Generative
Rueful