Psychology /Mors 200 Arts Final - Funeral Service Psychology and Counseling 4 Part 1
Mors 200 Arts Final - Funeral Service Psychology and Counseling 4 Part 1
This deck covers key concepts in funeral service psychology and counseling, focusing on counseling techniques, objectives, and styles. It includes definitions, goals, and approaches to grief counseling.
A non-judgemental short term helping process where one individual (the counselor) helps another individual or group (counselee or clients) understand and deal with issues or problems in their daily life.
Counseling
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Key Terms
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Definition
A non-judgemental short term helping process where one individual (the counselor) helps another individual or group (counselee or clients) understand and deal with issues or problems in their daily life.
Counseling
A specialty in general counseling with the goal of helping the individual grieve and address personal loss in a healthy manner.
Grief Couseling
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Specialized techniques that are used to help people with complicated grief.
Grief Therapy
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Help survivors complete any unfinished business with the deceased and to be able to say a final good-bye. Actualize the loss Help the counselee deal with both the expressed and latent effects of loss. To help the counselee overcome various inpediments to readjustment after a loss. To encourage the counselee to make a healthy emotional withdrawal from the deceased and to feel comfortable reinvesting that emotion in another relationship.
Goals of Grief Counseling (Worden)
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Gain a clearer insight into themselves and their situation Identify, talk about, explore, and understand their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors Obtain a better understanding of their feelings and behaviors Realize and utilize their own strengths, coping skills, and resources- what has worked for that person in the past. Work out what action they want to take Function more successfully in their day-to-day activities Prevent the development of more serious mental health problems.
Objectives of Counseling
Pre-need At-need Post-funeral
When and How Funeral Directors can Facilitate Healthy Greiving:
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
A non-judgemental short term helping process where one individual (the counselor) helps another individual or group (counselee or clients) understand and deal with issues or problems in their daily life. | Counseling |
A specialty in general counseling with the goal of helping the individual grieve and address personal loss in a healthy manner. | Grief Couseling |
Specialized techniques that are used to help people with complicated grief. | Grief Therapy |
Help survivors complete any unfinished business with the deceased and to be able to say a final good-bye. Actualize the loss Help the counselee deal with both the expressed and latent effects of loss. To help the counselee overcome various inpediments to readjustment after a loss. To encourage the counselee to make a healthy emotional withdrawal from the deceased and to feel comfortable reinvesting that emotion in another relationship. | Goals of Grief Counseling (Worden) |
Gain a clearer insight into themselves and their situation Identify, talk about, explore, and understand their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors Obtain a better understanding of their feelings and behaviors Realize and utilize their own strengths, coping skills, and resources- what has worked for that person in the past. Work out what action they want to take Function more successfully in their day-to-day activities Prevent the development of more serious mental health problems. | Objectives of Counseling |
Pre-need At-need Post-funeral | When and How Funeral Directors can Facilitate Healthy Greiving: |
Sponsoring educational programs on loss and grief. Using counseling skills during pre-need funeral arrangements to enhance the funeral arrangement experience | Pre-Need |
Utilize effective counseling techniques during the at-need arrangement conference to help families plan services that will maximize the potential for ahealing greiving experience. Execute the planned services in a professional, empathetic manner so that family’s needs are met. | At-Need |
Aftercare that meets the family’s post-funeral needs Telephone support Personal Visit Referral to individual grief counseling or support groups Providing appropriate grief literature | Post-Funeral |
Become aware that they are facing a difficult situation Perceive their feelings or situations as problematic Believe counseling can assist them Feel the pain is greater than the perceived or actual barriers to seeking counseling | Why do people seek Counseling? |
Embarrassment or shame at being able to handle things themselves Fear of judgement by the counselor Fear of being labeled mentally ill Social stigma in some cultures or communities | Why dont some people seek counseling even when it’s needed? |
Most clients improve at a greater rate than those who do not receive counseling A type of counseling that is most effective has not been proven No one type of treatment works best with every client in every counseling situation | Is counseling Helpful? |
Informational counseling Situational counseling Supportive counseling | Types of Counseling |
The goal is to share with someone a body of specialized information. | Informational Counseling |
Related to specific situations in life that may create crisis and produce pain, suffering, and significant feelings that are produced by the crisis. | Situational Counseling |
When listening to a greiver’s story, clairfying issues by questioning and probing, and validating their concerns, and responses, can bring peace and understanding to him/her. Empathtic, concerned, active listener | Supportive Counseling |
Directive Counseling Non-Directive Counseling Counselor may use both in one session. What may be needed for one person may be useless or harmful to another person. | Styles of Counseling |
When the counselor assumes the initiative and carries a major role in the identification and resolution of problems. Counselor is basically telling the client what to do. | Directive Counseling |
Developed primarily by Carl Rogers. The counselor guides the counselee to identify and solve his/her own problems. Counselor uses attending skills- paraphrasing, reflecting, clarifying Client gains help without surrendering personal responsibility for the situation. | Non-Directive Counseling (Client-centered, Person-centered) |
Establishes rapport with the client Assists the person to gain perspective Appraises the client’s problems Perceives the client’s situation Encourages realistic appraisal by the client Encourages conservational flow by avoiding questions that can be answered with yes or no Reflects the clients feelings back to them Judges the ability of the client to verbalize Does not assume the client’s first statement to be true or complete Allows the client to summarize the interview | The Non-Directive Approach Seems to be more Effective in Greif Counseling Because |