Relationships
Living with another person as part of a committed, intimate, sexual relationship.
What is cohabitation?
Form of family consisting only of parent(s) and child(ren).
What is nuclear family?
The practice of ending life for reasons of mercy.
What is euthanasia?
The sorrow, hurt, anger, guilt, confusion, and other feelings that arise after suffering a loss.
What is grief?
A ratio of body weight and height that is related to total body fat.
What is body mass index?
A situation in which a woman believes she cannot leave an abusive relationship and where she may even go so far as to kill her abuser.
What is battered woman syndrome?
Middle-aged adults caught between the competing demands of two generations: their parents and their children.
What is sandwich generation?
An approach to assisting dying people that emphasizes pain management, or palliative care, and death with dignity.
What is hospice?
The ways in which we express our grief.
What is mourning?
Exercise that places moderate stress on the heart by maintaining a pulse rate between 60% and 90% of the person's maximum heart rate.
What is aerobic exercise?
A theory of relationships based on the idea each partner contributes something to the relationship the other would be hard-pressed to provide.
What is exchange theory?
The most common family form globally in which grandparents and other relatives live with parents and children.
What is extended family?
A document in which a person states his or her wishes about life support and other treatments.
What is living will?
Expression of grief that is distinguished from depression and from normal grief in terms of separation distress and traumatic distress.
What is complicated grief?
Help keep arteries clear and break down low-density lipoproteins.
What are high-density lipoproteins?
Married couples who have grown apart but continue to live together.
What are married singles?
The person who gathers family members together for celebrations and keeps them in touch with each other.
What is kinkeeper?
Lack of heartbeat and respiration.
What is clinical death?
View of coping with bereavement that integrates loss-oriented stressors and restoration-oriented stressors.
What is dual process model?
Instituted early after a condition has begun (but may not yet have been diagnosed) and before significant impairments have occurred.
What is secondary prevention?
The notion similar interests and values are important in forming strong, lasting, interpersonal relationships.
What is homogamy?
The feeling that, as an adult child, one must care for one's parents.
What is filial obligation?
Situation in which a person's cortical functioning ceases while brainstem activity continues.
What is persistent vegetative state?
Refers to situations of loss in which there is no resolution or closure.
What is ambiguous loss?
The ratio of the number of people under age 15 and over age 64 in a country to the number of people between 15 and 64.
What is dependency ratio?