FSE2061 THANATOLOGY FINAL STUDY GUIDE EXAM
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
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Barriers to Effective Communication (6):
1. Funeral Director Dominance
2. Bombarding with Questions
3. Inappropriate Self-Disclosure
4. Offering Platitudes or False Reassurance
5. Discouraging the Expression of Emotions and Tears
6. Emotional Distancing
Who is credited with the 4 Tasks of Mourning?
Worden
(4) Tasks of Mourning:
(Worden)
- To accept the reality of the loss.
- To work through to the pain of grief.
- To adjust to an environment in which the deceased is missing.
- To emotionally relocate the deceased and move on with life.
Who is credited with development of the 6 Mourning Reconciliation Needs?
Wolfelt
Mourning Reconciliation Needs:
,(Wolfelt)
1. Embrace the pain of the loss
2. Remember the deceased
3. Search for meaning
Mediators of Mourning (factors that influence the grief process):
1. Who the person is who died
2. The Nature of the Attachment
3. How the person Died
4. Historical Antecedents
5. Personality Variables
6. Social Variables
7. Concurrent Stresses
8. Coping with Extraneous Stresses
Mediators of Mourning (Example):
The death of a spouse.
Who the person is who died.
Mediators of Mourning (Example):
A daughter whose abusive father dies.
Nature of the attachment.
Mediators of Mourning (Example):
When faced with grief, a person tends to experience great anxiety.
Personality variables
, Mediators of Mourning (Example):
The grief experienced by a widow who moved to Florida 6 months before her
husbands death and has no family to go with her to the funeral home.
Social variables
Mediators of Mourning (Example):
Grief experienced among 2 life long friends who grew up together, went to
college together, served in the military together and were best men in each others
wedding.
Nature of the attachment.
Mediators of Mourning (Example):
Grief experienced when a loved one commits suicide.
How the person died. (Mode of death)
Mediators of Mourning (Example):
Grief experienced by a family who has strong ties within a religious support
structure.
Social variables
Mediators of Mourning (Example):
Grief experienced when a family of 4 are killed in an automobile accident.
How the person died. (Mode of death)
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs:
1. Physiological Needs
2. Safety Needs
3. Love and Belongingness Needs
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
VERIFIED LATEST UPDATE
Barriers to Effective Communication (6):
1. Funeral Director Dominance
2. Bombarding with Questions
3. Inappropriate Self-Disclosure
4. Offering Platitudes or False Reassurance
5. Discouraging the Expression of Emotions and Tears
6. Emotional Distancing
Who is credited with the 4 Tasks of Mourning?
Worden
(4) Tasks of Mourning:
(Worden)
- To accept the reality of the loss.
- To work through to the pain of grief.
- To adjust to an environment in which the deceased is missing.
- To emotionally relocate the deceased and move on with life.
Who is credited with development of the 6 Mourning Reconciliation Needs?
Wolfelt
Mourning Reconciliation Needs:
,(Wolfelt)
1. Embrace the pain of the loss
2. Remember the deceased
3. Search for meaning
Mediators of Mourning (factors that influence the grief process):
1. Who the person is who died
2. The Nature of the Attachment
3. How the person Died
4. Historical Antecedents
5. Personality Variables
6. Social Variables
7. Concurrent Stresses
8. Coping with Extraneous Stresses
Mediators of Mourning (Example):
The death of a spouse.
Who the person is who died.
Mediators of Mourning (Example):
A daughter whose abusive father dies.
Nature of the attachment.
Mediators of Mourning (Example):
When faced with grief, a person tends to experience great anxiety.
Personality variables
, Mediators of Mourning (Example):
The grief experienced by a widow who moved to Florida 6 months before her
husbands death and has no family to go with her to the funeral home.
Social variables
Mediators of Mourning (Example):
Grief experienced among 2 life long friends who grew up together, went to
college together, served in the military together and were best men in each others
wedding.
Nature of the attachment.
Mediators of Mourning (Example):
Grief experienced when a loved one commits suicide.
How the person died. (Mode of death)
Mediators of Mourning (Example):
Grief experienced by a family who has strong ties within a religious support
structure.
Social variables
Mediators of Mourning (Example):
Grief experienced when a family of 4 are killed in an automobile accident.
How the person died. (Mode of death)
Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs:
1. Physiological Needs
2. Safety Needs
3. Love and Belongingness Needs
