Relationships
Living arrangement consisting of parents and children.
What is the nuclear family?
Brainstem reflexes have stopped, breathing has stopped, and individual is in a coma.
What is whole brain death?
An internal urge to complete an activity that interferes with other important activities; predictive of burnout. Ex) Working late every night and missing your kids' sporting events.
What is obsessive passion?
Subjective assessment of your own life.
What is quality of life?
cultural and ritualistic ways of expressing bereavement, such as special clothing and food.
What is mourning?
The degree to which people are similar
Jim decides he wants cancer treatment withheld.
What is passive euthanasia?
Workers have the right to take unpaid time off for the care of loved ones (birth of baby, adoption, aging parents, ill family) without fear of losing their job.
What is the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)?
The three components of healthy/successful aging.
What are:
- Being engaged with life
- Avoiding disease/disability
- Maintaining high cognitive and physical functioning?
A loss that appears insignificant to others, but is still highly consequential. Ex) the loss of a pet or celebrity.
What is disenfranchised grief?
According to Sternberg's Triarchic theory of love: passion & intimacy
What is Romantic love?
Travis makes jokes about death to spare his feelings regarding his own mortality.
What is terror management theory?
Women are likely to take on leadership roles when the risk of failure is the highest, such as during economic downturn.
What is the glass cliff?
A framework for interventions that promote and focus on wellness. Ex) vaccine clinics and cancer screenings for older adults.
What is salutogenesis?
Interventions, such as eating plenty of fruits and vegetables, that are aimed at trying to stay healthy and prevent disease.
What are primary interventions?
This theory explains changes in motivations and goals as we age. It also explains some of the changes in friendships due to these changes in goals and motivations.
What is Socioemotional Selectivity Theory?(Carstensen, 1999)
Grief work is not necessary and may prevent someone from moving on by bringing those negative thoughts back up repeatedly.
What is grief work as rumination hypothesis?
Jack found out there are no more career advancement opportunities in his job.
What is career plateauing?
These are two personal factors related to healthy aging and health-related outcomes.
What are nutrition and exercise?
Ratio of body weight and height. Related to total percent body fat.
What is Body Mass Index (BMI)?
In relationships, the perception that both partners are putting in equal amounts.
What is exchange theory?
This model allows for the experience of missing someone, while simultaneously embracing new challenges, activities, and relationships.
What is the model of adapting grieving dynamics (MAGD)?
Personal library of activities that we take with us into retirement. Ex) jogging, gardening, reading, socializing with friends.
What is leisure repertoire?
strategies that maximize gains and minimize losses and, thus, promote successful aging/development. Ex) someone who can no longer drive finds alternative transportation.
What is Selective Optimization with Compensation (Baltes)?
Bereavement model that says we cycle through loss oriented (negatives) and restoration oriented (more positive) stressors when experiencing grief.
What is the dual process model of grief?