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Grief and Loss

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1.  Group therapy for grief can help clients:
  1. Get over the loss in less than a year
  2. Provide validation, support, and create bonds
  3. Listen to other people’s problems
  4. Assess for complicated grief
2.  What are the three types of grief?
  1. Real, imagined, anticipated
  2. Layered, concerned, distressed
  3. Sad, anxious, forgotten
  4. Lonely, depressed, forlorn
3.  Symptoms of complicated grief include:
  1. Intense sorrow, pain and rumination over the loss of your loved one
  2. Intense and persistent longing or pining for the deceased
  3. Problems Accepting the death
  4. All of the above
4.  Grief is considered “normal” when:
  1. It lasts less than six months
  2. The client cries daily
  3. It has a known cause and it is not correlated with self-esteem
  4. The client misses the deceased
5.  Which one of these is a symptom of Persistent Complex Grief Disorder?
  1. Not getting out of bed
  2. Depression lasting for one month or less
  3. Loneliness
  4. Intense sorrow and emotional pain in response to the death
6.  Which of the following is a type of complicated grief?
  1. Excessive
  2. Severe and long lasting
  3. Gigantic and dysthymic
  4. Anxious and bereaved
7.  Treatment options for persistent complex grief disorder include:
  1. Medication
  2. Group Therapy
  3. Psychotherapy
  4. All of the above
8.  Who created the five stages of grief theory?
  1. Gabrielle Juliano-Villani
  2. Elizabeth Kubler Ross
  3. Sigmund Freud
  4. Carl Jung
9.  The brief grief questionnaire can be used to:
  1. Diagnosis depression
  2. Help a client move through a loss
  3. Indicate complicated grief
  4. Explain cause of death
10.  A risk factor for complicated grief includes:
  1. Previous unresolved losses
  2. Being an only child
  3. Not knowing the deceased
  4. Living alone

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