Chapter 10

Question 1

Empathic Listening Skills

Answer 1

• Appropriate eye contact
• Attentive body language such as slightly leaning forward
• Verbal following (nodding and verbal statements such as “I see”)
• Indicate that you are following what the person is saying and interested in hearing it

Question 2

Communication Facilitation

Answer 2

• Reflection of feeling
• Paraphrasing
• Use of minimal encouragers
• Use of open-ended questions
• Therapeutic silence

Question 3

Continuum of Bereavement Interventions

Answer 3

• Preventive interventions (anticipatory grieving, support)
• Monitoring, with social support
• Bereavement support groups (including online and telephone groups)
• Bereavement counseling
• Grief therapy (individual, couple, family)

Question 4

Providing and Encouraging Use of Social Support

Answer 4

• Support clients in their expression of emotional needs
• Actively listen
• Refer to support groups, peer support programs, and professional experts
• Ask open-ended questions such as “how are you doing?”

Question 5

Bereavement Counseling

Answer 5

• Encouraging the bereaved
• To tell his or her story and share memories
• Acknowledge & give permission to express feelings
• Identify strategies to cope with the effects of grief, such as relaxation training
• To plan for his or her life without the deceased

Question 6

Individual Grief Therapy Approaches

Answer 6

• Ego supportive psychotherapy
• Helps strengthen the child’s sense of organization and trust, increase the use of positive coping
• Play therapy
• Expressive materials and games, allows the child to work through feelings at their own pace
• Cognitive-behavioral therapy

Question 7

Bowenian Family Therapy

Answer 7

• Differentiate thoughts from feelings & explores
• Intergenerational aspects of loss
• Genogram

Question 8

Structural Family Therapy

Answer 8

• strengthens boundaries
• parental vs. child roles

Question 9

Narrative Family Therapy

Answer 9

• Identify strengths & capacities of family members

Question 10

Evidence-based Family Grief Therapy

Answer 10

• Kissane et al developed & tested a model of family grief therapy for complicated grief

• Focused, time-limited intervention (6-8 sessions (1.5 hours each), 6 months
• Goal: to increase cohesion, conflict resolution, & expression of thoughts & feelings

Question 11

Neimeyer and Currier (2009) Review of Evidence-based Interventions

Answer 11

• Common components of effective grief therapy that include
• Re-telling of the grief narrative with help
• Guided encounters with the deceased such as through letter writing,
• Promoting “restoration oriented” coping and development of new goals

Question 12

Family Bereavement Programs

Answer 12

• The Garden
• The Cove
• The Front Porch
• Camp Sunshine and other camp programs

Question 13

Interdisciplinary Team Members’ Core Functions

Answer 13

• Completing a thorough assessment
• Comprehensive educational/treatment plan
• Participating in an interdisciplinary team
• Implementing the components of the educational/treatment plan
• Evaluating progress; Advocating

Question 14

Professional Organizations

Answer 14

• Provide

• Information to help the public & other disciplines to understand their areas of expertise
• Professional training resources
• Guidance and peer consultation about specific areas of practice
• Credentialing