Deck 11: The Therapeutic Response to Clients Experiencing Loss, grief, dying and Death

Question 1

Oregon's law addressing those who are dying

A) is an assisted death law
B) allows physicians to give the fatal injection with client's written consent
C) was easily passed without conflict
D) addresses both assisted suicide and euthanasia

Answer 1

is an assisted death law

Question 2

Give three examples of how grieving family members and friends establish some kind of completion process after a death has occurred.

Answer 2

Answers will vary and might include:
​Legal pronouncement of death
​Observing a death ritual
​Planting a tree in the name of a person who is gone

Question 3

Dr.George L.Engel identified which process or stage of working through grief?

A) experiencing disbelief and shock over the loss
B) willingness to do anything to change what has/is happening when dying
C) experiencing depression so severe it needs to be treated medicinally
D) not accepting any treatment modalities,especially traditional ones

Answer 3

experiencing disbelief and shock over the loss

Question 4

An experienced health professional can move a dying client out of denial._________________________

Question 5

How can health professionals help clients who have a life-threatening illness and/or are dying?

A) Take care of themselves so they can help their clients
B) Make sure to move their clients out of denial
C) Do not honor clients' wishes that go against your beliefs
D) Encourage clients to become dependent on others

Question 6

Individuals who receive news that their illness is life-threatening

A) realize that death may be imminent
B) feel no hope for their situation
C) are disempowered and lose control over circumstances
D) react the same as when told their illness is terminal

Question 7

It has been said that the greatest grief comes from the loss of a(n)

A) child
B) parents/guardians
C) elderly person
D) adult

Question 8

A person's age will in part determine how one reacts to grief._________________________

Question 9

The use of the term life-threatening allows for a place for hope and empowers a person to a higher degree of control over their grief and dying._________________________

Question 10

What are the differences between men and women experiencing grief and loss?

Question 11

Dr.Elisabeth Kübler-Ross learned through her research that there is a logical order to the stages a person experiences when dying._________________________

Question 12

Which stage of grief is NOT one identified by Dr.Elisabeth Kübler- Ross?

A) denial of reality
B) expression of anger and rage
C) feelings of deep sorrow and aloneness
D) feelings of guilt,anger,and frustration upon realization that the loss did occur

Question 13

It is easier for clients to work through their grief when the relationship has already experienced conflict and ambivalence._________________________

Question 14

Anticipatory grief simplifies the grieving process later._________________________

Question 15

Professional health care employees who work with chronically ill clients or those who have life-threatening illnesses should always keep their emotions distant from their clients.___________________________________

Question 16

From a cultural perspective,describe at least three different death rituals.

Question 17

Federal law mandates that all medical facilities must inform their clients of the Patient Self-Determination Act._____________________________________________

Question 18

When clients provide an advanced directive that specifies that no heroic measures be used,the professional should

A) ignore the directive if there is any hope for survival
B) encourage clients to consider moving to a state with an assisted death law
C) encourage clients to keep the details of their directive from their families
D) honor the directive and respect the clients wishes as much as possible

Question 19

Unresolved grief can cause

A) pneumonia
B) unintentional accidents
C) stress-related medical diseases
D) organ dysfunction

Question 20

Explain how people grieve at a different rate and in different stages.

Question 21

Match each group with the statement that best characterizes it below.

Are very curious about death and want to plan their own rituals

A)Older adults
B)Adults
C)Adolescents
D)6- to 10-year-old children
E)3- to 5-year-old children
F)Infants
G)Women
H)Men

Question 22

Match each group with the statement that best characterizes it below.

Perceived as needing the support of others to deal with death

A)Older adults
B)Adults
C)Adolescents
D)6- to 10-year-old children
E)3- to 5-year-old children
F)Infants
G)Women
H)Men

Question 23

Match each group with the statement that best characterizes it below.

Believe that death is reversible

A)Older adults
B)Adults
C)Adolescents
D)6- to 10-year-old children
E)3- to 5-year-old children
F)Infants
G)Women
H)Men

Question 24

Explain the controversy of "helping someone die."

Question 25

Match each group with the statement that best characterizes it below.

Know that there is a loss only if they are not fed,clothed,and loved

A)Older adults
B)Adults
C)Adolescents
D)6- to 10-year-old children
E)3- to 5-year-old children
F)Infants
G)Women
H)Men

Question 26

Match each group with the statement that best characterizes it below.

Fear the loss of independence

A)Older adults
B)Adults
C)Adolescents
D)6- to 10-year-old children
E)3- to 5-year-old children
F)Infants
G)Women
H)Men

Question 27

Match each group with the statement that best characterizes it below.

Sense that loss poses a threat to their pattern of living

A)Older adults
B)Adults
C)Adolescents
D)6- to 10-year-old children
E)3- to 5-year-old children
F)Infants
G)Women
H)Men

Question 28

Match each group with the statement that best characterizes it below.

Have a fascination and fear about dying

A)Older adults
B)Adults
C)Adolescents
D)6- to 10-year-old children
E)3- to 5-year-old children
F)Infants
G)Women
H)Men