Psychology /Mors 200 Arts Final - Funeral Service Psychology and Counseling 1 Part 2
Mors 200 Arts Final - Funeral Service Psychology and Counseling 1 Part 2
This deck covers key concepts in funeral service psychology and counseling, including theories of grief, the purpose of funerals, and stages of mourning.
Survivors should not be told that they should be feeling a certain way at a certain time
Be Accepted for Where They Are
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Survivors should not be told that they should be feeling a certain way at a certain time
Be Accepted for Where They Are
These feelings may be lost or out of control for survivors after a death. They will slowly return as time passes, even though their life will not be the same as before the death.
Establish Stability and Security
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Strengthen present relationships Can be from friendships, love or both. A new love relationship does not mean the deceased is forgotten, but that the survivor learned how to navigate the pathways of relationship building and nurture love for a new person.
Provide a Basis for Building new Interpersonal Relationships
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Provides acting-out ceremonies that give expression to feelings too deep to be put into words. Provides the framework for group support Encourages the expression of feelings Provides values to live by
Dodge Magazine: The funeral does 4 specific things that are available to everyone.
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The funeral is the most accessible and most adequate resource for this purpose, and the most economical. Generally understood Possesses resources for meeting the varied social, emotional, and spiritual needs of the bereaved
The Funeral Provides Acting-Out Ceremonies that Give Expression to Feelings too Deep to be put into Words
Possible for people to get together, visit, and communicate and relate to each other Provides many ways for people to express love and concern Makes people feel comfortable in doing what would otherwise be more distressing
The Funeral Provides the Framework for Group Support
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
Survivors should not be told that they should be feeling a certain way at a certain time | Be Accepted for Where They Are |
These feelings may be lost or out of control for survivors after a death. They will slowly return as time passes, even though their life will not be the same as before the death. | Establish Stability and Security |
Strengthen present relationships Can be from friendships, love or both. A new love relationship does not mean the deceased is forgotten, but that the survivor learned how to navigate the pathways of relationship building and nurture love for a new person. | Provide a Basis for Building new Interpersonal Relationships |
Provides acting-out ceremonies that give expression to feelings too deep to be put into words. Provides the framework for group support Encourages the expression of feelings Provides values to live by | Dodge Magazine: The funeral does 4 specific things that are available to everyone. |
The funeral is the most accessible and most adequate resource for this purpose, and the most economical. Generally understood Possesses resources for meeting the varied social, emotional, and spiritual needs of the bereaved | The Funeral Provides Acting-Out Ceremonies that Give Expression to Feelings too Deep to be put into Words |
Possible for people to get together, visit, and communicate and relate to each other Provides many ways for people to express love and concern Makes people feel comfortable in doing what would otherwise be more distressing | The Funeral Provides the Framework for Group Support |
The whole funeral process of a feeling-oriented activity. Feelings are so important that they need to be recognized and expressed. | The Funeral Encourages the Expression of Feelings |
Confirms the value of life in the presence of death Shows respect for the dead and the living Each funeral carries with it challenges to a new and better life. | The Funeral Provides Values to Live By |
Provides an opportunity to receive and express love. Shows respect to the deceased's family and friends. provides opportunity to express grief Provides a face-to-face confrontation with death which confirms its reality Allows emotional support through sharing Meets the needs theologically, psychologically, and socially of those who mourn Provides an opportunity for farewell through ritual Provides a dramatic representation of the fact that a life has been lived by reflecting upon memories of the deceased. Helps establish emotional stability through a social support network. Establishes a socially acceptable climate for mourning. | Purpose and Values of the Funeral Ritual (American Board of Funeral Service Education) |
Any behavior people develop and maintain that enables them to be close to another individual. | Attachment Behavior (Bowlby) |
Humans have an instinctive need to form strong attachments to others. Attachments come from a need for security and safety. Situations that endanger the bond of that attachment give rise to emotional reactions. The greater the potential loss, the more intense the reaction. | Bowlby's Attachment Theory |
Suggested that many of the bereaved's symptoms were physical. Tightness in the throat Choking Shortness of breath Need for sighing empty feeling in the abdomen Lack of muscular power | Erik Lindemann |
Somatic or bodily distress Preoccupation with the image of the deceased Guilt relating to the deceased and the circumstances of the death Hostile reactions The inability to function as one had before the death | Lindemann's Grief Syndrome |
A set of symptoms associated with loss. | Grief Syndrome |
Emancipation from bondage to the deceased Readjustment to the environment in which the deceased is missing Formation of new relationships 'Coping with grief is an experience that is physically, emotionally, and psychologically draining.' | Lindemann's Grief Work |
A process occurring with loss, aimed at loosening the attachment to the dead for reinvesting in the living. Involves a change in one's self-concept, aspirations, goals, and relationships to the outside world. | Grief Work |
A person may not go through these stages in order or may have more than one at a time. Denial Anger Bargaining Depression Acceptance | Kubler-Ross's Stages in the Process of Dying |
A defense mechanism by which a person is unable or refuses to see things as they are because such facts are threatening to the self. Overwhelming sense of unreality A time when the mind is trying to comprehend event but is unable to accept the full impact. | Denial |
Blame directed at another person. | Anger |
Attempting to make deals with God to stop or change the diagnosis by begging, wishing, praying not to die, or at least to delay death. | Bargaining |
Overwhelming feelings of hopelessness, frustration, bitterness, self-pity, mourning the impending loss of hopes, dreams and plans for the future. Person feels a lack of control or numbness | Depression |
Knowing the impending death is real, not liking the fact, but realizing you must go on. | Acceptance |
Accept the reality of the loss Experience the pain of grief and to express emotions associated with it. To adjust to the environment in which the deceased is missing To withdraw emotional energy and reinvest it in another relationship. | Tasks of Mourning (Worden) |
When someone dies, even if the death is expected, there is always a sense that it never happened. This can range from a normal short-term slight distortion to an abnormal delusion. | Accept the Reality of the Loss |
Pain can be physical or emotional For some people the pain is not honestly experienced If the pain is not honestly experienced with associated feelings, it can last a lifetime | Experience the pain of grief and express emotions associated with it |