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A Framework for Understanding and Approaching Grief for Clinicians

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1.  Reactions to grief can be multi-dimensional. Which of the following is a cognitive response to grief?
  1. Sadness
  2. Lack of energy
  3. Negative thoughts
  4. Social withdrawal
2.  Which of the following is NOT part of the approach to the grief trajectory framework?
  1. It eliminates stages, phases, and tasks
  2. It eliminates a time frame for grief
  3. It is linear
  4. Closure is not a goal
3.  There are 3 components in the grief trajectory approach. Which of the following is NOT one of the components?
  1. The Forever
  2. The Event
  3. The Work
  4. The Time
4.  Which component of the grief trajectory approach involves an engaging ongoing process where the griever defines the work leading to some level of adaptation to the loss?
  1. The Work
  2. The Forever
  3. The Time
  4. The Event
5.  Grief that lingers long after the loss, but it no longer consumes or controls the griever's life is defined by the grief trajectory as which kind of grief?
  1. The Time
  2. The Forever
  3. The Work
  4. The Event
6.  Disenfranchised grief is the term used to define grief that is often not openly acknowledged, socially validated, or publicly supported by which of the following?
  1. Society
  2. Social Workers
  3. Therapists
  4. NASW
7.  All of the following are considered examples of disenfranchised losses EXCEPT:
  1. A death by suicide
  2. The death of a spouse
  3. Loss of a home
  4. Loss of a job/career
8.  Empathic failure involves:
  1. A lack of sympathy toward others
  2. The ability to acknowledge an individual’s grief
  3. Viewing someone’s death as a moral failure
  4. Failure of others to understand and support the individual’s experience of emotional pain
9.  All of the following are levels of grief that tend to be ignored and denied public support EXCEPT for:
  1. Loss that is anticipated
  2. The loss is not recognized as legitimate
  3. The griever is not acknowledged
  4. The relationship between the griever and the loss is not acknowledged
10.  All of the following are true about Sudden Temporary Upsurges of Grief (STUGs) EXCEPT for:
  1. These reactions can be expected and can happen in response to anniversaries, birthdays, holidays, and family celebrations
  2. They can be unexpected in the form of a song on the radio, a smell, or something that is read or seen that brings up the memory of a loss.
  3. They tend to catch the individual off-guard and “come like a bolt out of the blue.”
  4. These events rarely produce an intense reaction

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