Exam Preview for 1020: Disenfranchised Grief: When Grief and Grieve

Disenfranchised Grief: When Grief and Grievers Are Unrecognized

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1. Disenfranchised grief can be described as a: framework for dealing with loss consequence of lacking social support or acknowledgement of loss response to prior knowledge of an impending death situation that produces an intense emotional and physical reaction
2. All the following are examples of losses that tend to be disenfranchised EXCEPT: Divorce Loss of a pet The death of a child A death by suicide
3. Disenfranchised grief can be felt when someone experiences a loss: but others do not acknowledge the importance of the loss in the person’s life that others support and recognize as a legitimate loss that was expected that was unexpected
4. Grievers that tend to be excluded include, but are not limited to: spouses, siblings, and parents relatives, close friends, and classmates teammates, fiancé, and co-workers the elderly, children, and individuals with intellectual/developmental disabilities
5. Empathic failure is defined as: The ability to acknowledge an individual’s grief. Failure of others to understand and support the individual’s experience of emotional pain. The individual does not feel ashamed or guilty about expressing their grief. The perceived as worthy of grief and grieving is expected.
6. Following a loss, which of the following is an essential element of the healing process? that the loss be recognized and validated focusing on the positive memories only avoidance of difficult aspects of the loss accept the loss and move forward as quickly as possible
7. All the following are primary concepts that serve to disenfranchise someone’s grief EXCEPT? The relationship is not recognized. The loss is not recognized. The mechanism of death is not stigmatized. The griever is not recognized.
8. The term disenfranchised grief was coined by: Elizabeth Kubler-Ross Kenneth Doka Pauline Boss William Worden
9. The loss(es) that tend to be disenfranchised may not be grieved openly because: they make other people feel uncomfortable other find them difficult to understand the griever does not want to talk about them they are perceived as unworthy, shameful, or socially unacceptable.
10. Disenfranchised losses can be death or non-death related. Either way, they tend to be disenfranchised when they are: stigmatized, minimized, and unrecognized understood, validated, and acknowledged viewed as legitimate and worthy of grief there is public support for the loss