ARTS WEEK 6 FUNERAL SERVICE
PSYCHOLOGY AND COUNSELING 2026 FINAL
REVIEW PACK COMPLETE QUESTION SET AND
CORE CONCEPT SUMMARY
◉ Adaptation. Answer: the individuals ability to adjust to the
psychological and emotional changes brought on by a stressful event
such as death of a significant other.
◉ Affect. Answer: feeling and their expression.
◉ Alarm. Answer: fear or anxiety caused by the sudden realization
of danger created by the impact of the shock.
◉ Alienation. Answer: the state of estrangement an individual feels
in social settings that are viewed as foreign, unpredictable, or
unacceptable.
◉ Alternatives. Answer: a choice of services and merchandise
available as families make a selection and complete the funeral
arrangements, formulating different actions in adjusting to crisis.
◉ Altruism. Answer: a tendency to do good.
, ◉ Anger. Answer: blame directed toward another person.
◉ Anomic Grief. Answer: a term to describe the experience of grief,
especially in young bereaved parents, where mourning customs are
unclear due to an inappropriate death and the absence of prior
bereavement experience; typically in a society that has attempted to
minimize the impact of death through medical control of disease and
social control of those who deal with the dying and the dead.
◉ Anticipatory Grief. Answer: syndrome characterized by the
presence of grief in anticipation of death or loss; the actual death
comes as a confirmation of knowledge of a life-limiting condition.
◉ Anxiety. Answer: a state of tension, typically characterized by
rapid heartbeat, shortness of breath and other similar ramifications
of arousal of the autonomic nervous system; an emotion
characterized by a vague fear or premonition that something
undesirable is going to happen.
◉ Apathy. Answer: indifference, lack of emotion or interest,
uncaring.
◉ At-Need Counseling. Answer: a death has occurred and the funeral
director is counseling with the family as they select services and
PSYCHOLOGY AND COUNSELING 2026 FINAL
REVIEW PACK COMPLETE QUESTION SET AND
CORE CONCEPT SUMMARY
◉ Adaptation. Answer: the individuals ability to adjust to the
psychological and emotional changes brought on by a stressful event
such as death of a significant other.
◉ Affect. Answer: feeling and their expression.
◉ Alarm. Answer: fear or anxiety caused by the sudden realization
of danger created by the impact of the shock.
◉ Alienation. Answer: the state of estrangement an individual feels
in social settings that are viewed as foreign, unpredictable, or
unacceptable.
◉ Alternatives. Answer: a choice of services and merchandise
available as families make a selection and complete the funeral
arrangements, formulating different actions in adjusting to crisis.
◉ Altruism. Answer: a tendency to do good.
, ◉ Anger. Answer: blame directed toward another person.
◉ Anomic Grief. Answer: a term to describe the experience of grief,
especially in young bereaved parents, where mourning customs are
unclear due to an inappropriate death and the absence of prior
bereavement experience; typically in a society that has attempted to
minimize the impact of death through medical control of disease and
social control of those who deal with the dying and the dead.
◉ Anticipatory Grief. Answer: syndrome characterized by the
presence of grief in anticipation of death or loss; the actual death
comes as a confirmation of knowledge of a life-limiting condition.
◉ Anxiety. Answer: a state of tension, typically characterized by
rapid heartbeat, shortness of breath and other similar ramifications
of arousal of the autonomic nervous system; an emotion
characterized by a vague fear or premonition that something
undesirable is going to happen.
◉ Apathy. Answer: indifference, lack of emotion or interest,
uncaring.
◉ At-Need Counseling. Answer: a death has occurred and the funeral
director is counseling with the family as they select services and
