Funeral Service Counseling
About 19 of every 150 questions on a NBE Arts practice exam come from this topic.
What to know
Know the major grief models (Lindemann, Kubler-Ross, Bowlby, Worden's tasks of mourning, Rando's six R processes, Doka's disenfranchised grief, continuing bonds), normal versus complicated grief, grief across ages and types of death, and the funeral director's role: active listening, helping not counseling beyond scope, referrals, and aftercare.
Where it comes from
- NBE Arts content outline (2023), Domain III
Try a practice question
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's five stages, as presented in On Death and Dying (1969), were originally based on interviews with
- Afuneral directors describing family reactions
- Bparents who had experienced stillbirth or neonatal loss
- Cterminally ill patients facing their own deaths
- Dwidows and widowers during the first year of bereavement
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terminally ill patients facing their own deaths. The stages described dying patients' responses; they were later applied, often loosely, to bereaved survivors.
Kubler-Ross E., On Death and Dying (1969)