Types of Grief & Loss
Culture, Grief & Loss
Grief and Development
Historical/Intergenerational Trauma
Ethical & Legal Issues
100

Grief that is complicated by adjustment disorders, major depression, substance abuse, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

What is complicated grief

100

Beliefs about the meaning of life, death and afterlife.

What is death ethos

100

Age group is dependent on caregivers for their needs but are trying to master independence

What is ages 2-3 (toddlers).

100

A type of damage to the mind that occurs as a result of a severely distressing event.

What is psychological trauma

100

A document that allows the client/patient to state their wishes for end-of-life medical care.  The client/patient is not subjected to any treatment without his/her consent.  The client/patient is instructing medical personnel to use, withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment when the patient can no longer make decisions.

What is a living will or advance directive

200

A natural reaction to an event or loss that is personally painful or traumatic

What is normal grief.

200

Communal or institutional expression or practice of faith

What is religion

200

Middle age adults meeting the needs of of their own family, their parents and older family members are known as the specific type of generation.

What is the sandwich generation.

200

Trauma that is usually inflicted by others on a group of people based on their ethnicity, race, color, or religion for the profit or benefit of the oppressors

What is historical trauma

200

Provides pain relief and comfort care to those who are seriously ill no matter what the prognosis.

What is palliative care

300

The normal mourning that occurs when a death or other loss is expected.

What is anticipatory grief.

300

Refusal to believe that death would take anything away and believe it could be overcome.

What is death defying

300

This age group does not recognize death but experiences loss in reaction to separation by being sluggish, quiet and unresponsive. 

What is infancy.

300

Historical trauma leads to another type of trauma

What is intergenerational trauma

300

This form is an approach to improving end-of-life care in the United States, encouraging doctors to speak with patients and create specific medical orders to be honored by health care workers during a medical crisis.

What is the POLST form

400

Loss surrounded by a stigma that results in lack of support, acknowledgment and/or understanding of survivors and the challenges they face

What is disenfranchised grief

400

Viewing death as an inevitable and natural part of the life cycle.

Behaviors and events of the dying process are integrated into everyday life.

What is death accepting

400

This age group is at great risk for maladaptive coping strategies such as substance abuse, risk taking, sexual experimentation and suicide

What is adolescence

400

Example of historical and intergenerational trauma

´Native American/First Nation Genocide

´African American Enslavement

´The Holocaust (WWII Europe)

´The Khmer Rouge

´The Annexation of China by the Japanese (e.g., The Rape of Nanking)

´Rwandan Genocide

´Pinochet Regime & The Disappeared (Chile)

´Extreme Poverty

400

Interventions that are unlikely to provide significant benefit for the patient.

What is medical futility

500

Delayed grief which may occur when one is expected to “be strong” for others

Complicated grief

500

That which gives meaning to ones life.

What is spirituality

500

The cumulative experience of both symbolic and actual losses that occur as one ages.

What are pileup losses.

500

A result of this may result in the lack of trust in “outsiders”

What is historical and intergenerational trauma

500

In Washington State, doctors provide the means to end the patient’s life by prescribing a lethal dose of medication that the patient self-administers.

Death with Dignity Act