Chapter 19 Quiz

A  anticipatory grieving

B  bereavement overload

C  unestablished bereavement

D  disenfranchised grief

A  Typically, children experience physical symptoms of grief for a few weeks and then experience more internal symptoms.

B  Children grieving the loss of a parent or sibling suffer fewer physical symptoms than adults grieving the loss of a partner or child.

C  In follow-up studies, children report that they rarely think about the deceased parent or sibling after one to three years.

D  Many children say they actively maintain mental contact with their dead parent or sibling, dreaming about and speaking to them frequently.

A  parent

B  child

C  sibling

D  spouse

A  engage in anticipatory grieving.

B  recover more quickly.

C  conclude that they could have prevented the death.

D  experience disenfranchised grief.

A  do not anticipate grief.

B  express distress less directly.

C  express depression less directly.

D  seek social support more readily.

A  state in writing the desired end-of-life medical treatment.

B  are not recognized in the United States or Canada.

C  authorize mercy killing.

D  guarantee personal control over the right to die.

A  voluntary active euthanasia.

B  passive loss.

C  involuntary passive euthanasia.

D  mandatory passive euthanasia

A  involuntary euthanasia.

B  passive euthanasia.

C  assisted suicide.

D  voluntary active euthanasia.

A  only when patients are conscious and fully aware.

B  but often upsets family members who desire quiet times.

C  only when it replaces use of pain medications.

D  because hearing functions longer than other senses.

A  provides spiritual and emotional support, but not palliative care.

B  aims to provide a caring community sensitive to the dying person’s needs.

C  emphasizes rehabilitation rather than high-quality terminal care.

D  death often triggers feelings of anger, frustration, and confusion.

A  talk openly and honestly about his condition, so that he can focus on resolving family conflicts before he dies.

B  forbid the doctors to talk to him about his condition because it will bring bad fortune to the family.

C  avoid informing him of his condition because they believe doing so hastens death.

D  pretend there is nothing wrong in an attempt to prevent unnecessary stress.

A  French

B  Irish

C  Japanese

D  Middle Eastern

A  only in the last hours or minutes before death.

B  only in the last weeks or days before death.

C  within the first two months after learning the diagnosis.

D  after bargaining and before depression.

A  denial

B  anger

C  bargaining

D  acceptance

A  with acceptance.

B  by denying the seriousness of the illness.

C  with anger.

D  by bargaining for extra time.

A  with deep faith in some form of higher force or being.

B  who do not believe in a higher force or being.

C  who believe in a rewarding afterlife but rarely pray or attend services.

A  is in the mortality phase of death.

B  has entered a persistent vegetative state.

C  is brain dead.

D  is in the agonal phase of death.

A  resuscitation is still possible.

B  the heartbeat, circulation, breathing, and brain functioning stop.

C  the individual passes into permanent death.

D  the individual’s regular heartbeat disintegrates, causing muscle spasms and gasping.

A  resuscitation is no longer possible.

B  heartbeat, circulation, breathing, and brain functioning stop.

C  the individual’s regular heartbeat disintegrates, causing muscle spasms and gasping.

D  the individual passes into permanent death.

A  geriatrics.

B  anthropology.

C  thanatology.

D  gerontology.