Exam 12: Children

The Harvard Child Bereavement Study showed that bereaved children need:

Central issues likely to be prominent in the grief experiences of bereaved children include:

Research about sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) has taught us that:

According to Speece and Brent, many researchers have been systematically unwilling to enter into nonnaturalistic aspects of children's concepts of death. This relates most closely to which of what Speece and Brent called sub- concepts of the concept of death?

Death-related experiences and issues are not openly discussed with children in contemporary American society because .

Waechter's research demonstrated highest anxiety levels in .

According to Erikson's description of developmental eras in the human life cycle, the principal virtue or quality of ego functioning to be achieved in middle childhood is .

To say that children engage in "magical thinking" means they .

Which of the following is not true about grieving children?

Worden and others have argued that children do experience grief and mourning, but have also maintained that children may not respond to loss or express their reactions as adults do. How would you explain these similarities and differences?

Mary is nine years old. She is at home in the last stages of a life-threatening illness. When she says she misses her friends and wants to go to school to see them, what should you do?

According to Erikson's description of developmental eras in the human life cycle, the principal virtue or quality of ego functioning to be achieved in toddlerhood is .

According to Erikson's theory of the human life cycle, the predominant developmental issue in early childhood is _________.

Which of the following is a significant variable that affects children's interactions with death?

The leading cause of death in the United States in all of childhood after the first year of life is:

Explain Maria Nagy's theory of the development of death-related concepts in childhood. Note the strengths and limitations of this theory.

Which of the following sentences is likely to be more difficult for a child to comprehend: "I will die," or "You are dead"? Explain your answer.

Identify and explain three (3) guidelines that you would recommend to adults who are trying to help bereaved children cope with death.

Identify and discuss three (3) ways in which the work of Mark Speece and Sandor Brent has contributed to our appreciation of children's understandings of death.

The leading cause of death among children 1-4 years of age in the United States is .