While your son and his best friend Luis have a conversation in  your living room, you overhear your son’s friend describing his family as composed by his mother, his step-father, step-sister, and baby brother.  What type of family is Luis describing?

Which of the following has historically been considered the traditional family structure?

The _____ is composed of a household or family unit created by related nuclear families, friendships such as church groups, colleagues at work, or neighbors.

The grief mediator that indicates that the degree of perceived emotional support from others, both inside and outside the family, alleviates the adverse effects of stress, including the stress of bereavement is commonly known as _____.

The death of a child, while felt, would be lessened simply because of the number of other children in a _____ family.

According to J. William Worden, in order to understand why individuals handle the tasks of mourning in different ways, one must understand that there are mediators of mourning affecting the behavior of the surviving relatives and friends of the deceased.  Which of the following are those mediators of mourning?

Each culture has its own rituals that influence the expression of grief. The general patterns of response to death include death _____.   a. denial   b. acceptance   c. defiance   d. devotion

A _____ is an ancient tradition of devotional praying in Christianity, consisting of private or public prayers repeated for nine successive days after the burial of a loved one.

This period called _____, (literally means “seven”) is the week-long mourning period in Judaism for first-degree relatives who stay at home and receive condolence calls.

The _____ is a group of specially trained Jews who care for the body and prepare it for burial. Men handle male bodies and women prepare female bodies; modesty is preserved even in death.