CT Grief & Bereavement Theory 4

Question 1

Which type of grief involves mourning that begins before an anticipated death?

Accepted Answer

Anticipatory grief

Answer

Anticipatory grief refers to the mourning process that begins prior to an expected death, such as during a terminal illness diagnosis.

Question 2

In traumatic bereavement, which element most distinguishes it from ordinary grief?

Accepted Answer

The death was sudden, violent, or unexpected

Answer

Traumatic bereavement is distinguished by the traumatic nature of the death — sudden, violent, or unexpected circumstances that overwhelm normal coping capacities.

Question 3

The 'working through' concept in psychodynamic grief theory was originally proposed by:

Accepted Answer

Sigmund Freud in 'Mourning and Melancholia'

Answer

Freud's 1917 essay 'Mourning and Melancholia' introduced the idea that grief requires psychological work to withdraw libidinal energy from the lost object.

Question 4

A hospice social worker notes that a widower shows no emotional response six months after his wife's death. According to Lindemann, this may indicate:

Accepted Answer

Absent or inhibited grief that may emerge later

Answer

Lindemann described absent or inhibited grief as a morbid grief reaction in which emotions are suppressed and may emerge delayed or in disguised form.

Question 5

According to Neimeyer, when a death violates a person's life narrative, effective grief work involves:

Accepted Answer

Revising the narrative to integrate the loss

Answer

Neimeyer's meaning reconstruction model holds that adaptive grieving requires reauthoring one's life narrative to create a coherent story that incorporates the loss.

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CT Grief & Bereavement Theory 4