Ch. 13 Dying And Bereavement

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Active Euthanasia

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The deliberate ending of someone's life.

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Anniversary Reaction

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Changes in behavior related to feelings of sadness on the anniversary date of a loss.

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Anticipatory Grief

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Grief experienced during the period before an expected death occurs that supposedly serves to buffer the impact of the loss when it does come and to facilitate recovery.

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Bereavement

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The state or condition caused by loss through death.

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Bioethics

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Study of the interface between human values and technological advances in health and life sciences.

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Clinical Death

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Lack of heartbeat and respiration.

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Complicated or Prolonged Grief Disorder

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Expression of grief that is distinguished from depression and from normal grief in terms of separation distress and traumatic distress.

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Death Anxiety

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People's anxiety or even fear of death and dying.

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Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) Order

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A medical order that means cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is not started should one's heart and breathing stop.

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Dual-Process Model (DPM)

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View of coping with bereavement that integrates loss-oriented stressors and restoration-oriented stressors.

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End-of-Life Issues

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Issues pertaining to the management of the final phase of life, after-death disposition of their body, memorial services, and distribution of assets.

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Euthanasia

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The practice of ending life for reasons of mercy.

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Final Scenario

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Making one's choices known about how they do and do not want their lives to end.

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Four-Component Model

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Model of grief that understanding grief is based on (1) the context of the loss; (2) continuation of subjective meaning associated with loss; (3) changing representations of the lost relationship over time; and (4) the role of coping and emotion regulating processes.

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Grief

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The sorrow, hurt, anger, guilt, confusion, and other feelings that arise after suffering a loss.

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Grief Work

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The psychological side of coming to terms with bereavement.

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Grief Work as Rumination Hypothesis

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An approach that not only rejects the necessity of grief processing for recovery from loss but views extensive grief processing as a form of Rumination that may actually increase distress.

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Health Care Power of Attorney

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A document in which an individual appoints someone to act as his or her agent for health care decisions.

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Hospice

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An approach to assisting dying people that emphasizes pain management, or palliative care, and death with dignity.

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Living Will

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A document in which a person states his or her wishes about life support and other treatments.

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Mourning

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The ways in which we express our grief.

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Palliative Care

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Care that is focused on providing relief from pain and other symptoms of disease at any point during the disease process.

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Passive Euthanasia

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Allowing a person to due by withholding available treatment.

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Persistent Vegetative State

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Situation in which a person's cortical functioning ceases while brainstorm activity continues.

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Physician Assisted Suicide

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Process in which physicians provide dying patients with a fatal dose of medication the patient self-administers.

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Separation Distress

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Expression of complicated or prolonged grief disorder that includes preoccupation with the deceased to the point it interferes with everyday functioning, upsetting memories of the deceased, longing and searching for the deceased, and isolation following the loss.

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Terror Management Theory

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Addresses the issue of why people engage in certain behaviors to achieve particular psychological states based on their deeply rooted concerns about mortality.

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Thanatology

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The study of death, dying, grief, bereavement, and social attitudes toward these issues.

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Traumatic Distress

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Expression of complicated or prolonged grief disorder that includes feeling disbelief about the death, mistrust, anger, and detachment from others as a result of the death, feeling shocked by the death, and the experience of physical presence of the deceased.

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Whole-Brain Death

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Death that is declared only when the deceased meets eight criteria established in 1981.