Chapter 9
This term describes the objective event of loss.
What is bereavement?
This type of death is often considered "out of sequence" and may lead to long-term or "perpetual" grief in parents.
What is the death of an adult child?
This term refers to a person’s thoughts or plans of suicide.
What is suicidal ideation?
This term describes the desensitized emotional state people may enter when faced with mass death or repeated trauma.
What is psychic numbing?
Fear of aging is most amplified during this life stage.
What is youth?
This type of loss is often described as prompting a “developmental push” that can change a person’s outlook on life.
What is the death of a parent?
This type of grief continues in some form over time, reflecting the “continuing bonds” model.
What is ongoing grief?
Seppuku is an example of this type of suicide.
What is altruistic suicide?
In some religious traditions, this book records a person’s deeds and is referenced in final judgment.
What is the Book of Deeds?
In culturally competent care, the most important principle is treating the individual as this.
What is the expert of their own experience?
This grief model is criticized for overemphasizing the need to relinquish attachments to the deceased.
What is the grief work perspective?
This culture was mentioned in the chapter reading as cutting their hair short as a visual sign of mourning.
What is the Hopi culture?
This term describes psychological pain due to unmet core needs.
What is psychache?
This is the term for the cycle of rebirth through multiple lifetimes.
What is samsara?
This is the goal of maximizing years lived in good health and well-being rather than simply extending lifespan.
What is health span?
This is the process by which individuals interpret major life events like loss and reshape their life narrative.
What is meaning reconstruction?
Is defined as a death of an apparently
healthy infant usually before one year of age and of unknown or no definitive cause.
What is Sudden Infant Death Syndrome?
This type of suicide involves a person playing a partial or unconscious role in their own death, such as through chronic drug use.
What is subintentional suicide?
This dimension of religiosity describes how religion is integrated into everyday decisions and behavior.
What is consequential religiosity?
Is a key feature of many beliefs about what follows death.
What is judgment
This coping style focuses on emotional expression and feeling-focused responses to grief.
What is intuitive grieving?
Is one of many stressors that characterize the challenges faced by
the older adult
What is bereavement?
This psychological phenomenon can occur after a suicide in a community, leading others—especially young people—to also attempt or die by suicide.
What is suicide contagion?
In Jewish tradition, this is the number of people required for certain communal prayers.
What is a minyan (10 people)?
Most persistent image of afterlife in the history of religion.
Rebirth