Psychology Vocabulary Flashcards
A formal act or observance that may or may not have symbolic content.
Ceremony
From the Latin “to know;” the study of the origins and consequences of thoughts, memories, beliefs, perceptions, explanations, and other mental processes.
Cognitive Psychology
Related to specific situations in life that may create crises and produce human pain and suffering. This type of counseling adds another dimension to the giving of information in that it deals with significant feelings that are produced by life crises.
Situational Counseling
Grief extending over a long period of time without resolution.
Complicated Grief
Unresolved Grief, Chronic Grief
Fear or anxiety caused by the sudden realization of danger created by the impact of the shock.
Alarm
The process of correctly pronouncing all the necessary parts of a word.
Articulation
Occurs when persons experience symptoms and behaviors which cause them difficulty but they do not see or recognize the fact that these are related to the loss.
Masked Grief (Worden)
A state of moral development in which the individual considers universal moral principals which supersede the authority of the group.
Post-Conventional Stage (Kohlberg)
A medical doctor with a specialty in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders.
Psychiatrist
A brief review of points covered in a portion of the counseling session.
Summary
A process occurring with losses aimed at loosening the attachment to that which has been lost for appropriate reinvestment.
Griefwork (Lindemann)
Attribution of one’s unacceptable thoughts, feelings, or behaviors to someone else.
Projection
The state of being prevented from attaining a purpose; thwarted; the blocking of the satisfaction of a perceived need by some kind of obstacle.
Frustration
Providing a choice of services and merchandise available as families make a selection and complete funeral arrangements, formulating different actions in adjusting to a crisis.
Alternatives
To hold certain information i trust and not disclose without proper authorization or authority.
Confidentiality
A pleasant term substituted for a more direct, less pleasant term.
Euphemism
Incorrect assumptions that lead us to believe that we have heard the message before or that the message is too simple or too complex to understand.
Faulty Assumption
The reaction of the body to an event often experienced emotionally as a sudden, violent and upsetting disturbance.
Shock
A death has occurred and the funeral director is counseling with the family as they select the services and items of merchandise in completing arrangements for the funeral service of their choice.
At-Need Counseling
A declaration or public statement of professional standards of right and wrong conduct.
Code of Ethics
The assumption of blame directed toward one’s self by others.
Shame
Thoughts of ending one’s life/
Suicidal Ideation
A prediction or expectation of an event that makes the outcome more likely to occur than would otherwise.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Treating members of various social groups differently in circumstances where their rights or treatment should be identical.
Discrimination
Communication in which the two parties involved consider one another as individuals.
Interpersonal Communication
According to Simos, a compelling need by which the individual attempts to restore inner psychological equilibrium, uniting past, present and future in the cycle from loss and the fear of loss to this.
Restitution
Excessive in duration and never comes to a satisfactory conclusion.
Chronic Grief
The believability of a speaker or other source of information.
Credibility
Any act that is charged with symbolic content.
Ritual
Centering a client’s thinking and feelings on the situation causing a problem and assisting the person in choosing the behavior or adjustment to solve the problem.
Focusing
Blame directed toward another person.
Anger
Feelings such as happiness, anger or grief, created by brain patterns accompanied by bodily changes.
Emotions
Support or support system provided to the counselee who is seeking an alternative adjustment to problems.
Guidance
An act or practice of allowing the death of persons suffering from a life-limiting condition.
Euthanasia (Right to Die)
A speech that is read word-for-word from a prepared text.
Manuscript Speech
Helping people facilitate uncomplicated grief to a healthy completion of the tasks of grieving within a reasonable time frame.
Grief Counseling
A therapeutic experience for reasonably healthy persons. Do not confuse this with psychotherapy which is a treatment for emotionally disturbed persons, who seek, or are referred for assistance with pathological problems. A counselor’s clients are encouraged to see assistance before they develop serious neurotic, psychotic, or characterological disorders.
Counseling (Ohlsen)
According to client-centered counseling, the necessary quality of a counselor being in touch with reality and with other’s perception of one-self.
Congruence
A stage of moral development in which moral reasoning is based on reward and punishment from those in authority.
Pre-Conventional Stage (Kohlberg)
A speech that is learned and delivered by rote without a written text.
Memorized Speech
A state of tension, typically characterized by rapid heartbeat, shortness of breath and other similar ramifications of arousal of the autonomic nervous system; an emotion characterized by a vague fear or premonition that something undesirable is going to happen.
Anxiety
Agreement between group members about a decision.
Consensus
Excessive written or verbal information.
Message Overload
Negative attitude towards others based on their gender, religion, race or membership in a particular group.
Prejudice
That counseling which occurs before a death.
Pre-Need Counseling
Expressing a thought or idea in an alternate and sometimes shortened form.
Paraphrasing
The study of human behavior and mental processes in humans and/or animals.
Psychology
A force that interferes with the process of communication.
Noise
Listening in which the goal is to help the speaker solve a problem.
Empathetic Listening
An emotion or set of emotions due to a loss.
Grief
According to Carl Rogers, accepting the client or counselee as he or she is, and for what he or she is without imposing judgments or stipulations.
Positive Regard
The study of death.
Thanatology
A statement or action designed or perceived to create anxiety in an individual’s life.
Threat
Those appropriate and helpful acts of counseling that come after the funeral.
Post-Funeral Counseling (Aftercare)
Listening in which the goal is to judge the quality or accuracy of speaker’s remarks.
Evaluative Listening
A deliberate act of self-destruction.
Suicide
The region of the mind that is beyond awareness especially impulses and desires not directly known to a person.
Unconscious
Complete sentence describing the central idea of a speech, usually found in the first paragraph.
Thematic (Thesis Statement)
A statement or action which creates anxiety in an individual’s life.
Threat
Giving the appearance of listening.
Pseudolistening
The experience of the emotion of grief.
Bereavement
The speed at which a speaker utters words.
Rate
The relatively stable set of perceptions each individual holds of himself or herself.
Self-Concept
Anytime someone helps someone else with a problem.
Counseling (Jackson)
An adjustment process which involves grief or sorrow over a period of time and helps in the reorganization of the life an an individual following a loss or death of someone loved.
Mourning
Counselor takes a live speaking role, asking questions, suggesting courses of action, etc.
Directive Counseling
The emotional associations of a term.
Connotation
The state of estrangement an individual feels in social settings that are viewed as foreign, unpredictable or unacceptable.
Alienation
The right of finality in a funeral service preceding cremation, earth burial, entombment or burial at sea.
Committal Service
Rules that govern society.
Law
Those appropriate and helpful acts of counseling that comes after the funeral.
Aftercare (Post-Funeral Counseling)
The ability to communicate the belief that everyone possesses the capacity and right to choose alternatives and make decisions.
Respect (Wolfelt)
Life events and minor hassles that exert pressure or strain.
Stress
Detailed examples of adjustments, choices or alternatives available to the client or counselee, from which a course of action may be selected.
Illustrating
Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
AIDS
The medium through which a message passes from sender to receiver.
Channel
A learned tendency to respond to people, objects, or institutions in a positive or negative way.
Attitude
