Author Question: Kate has not seen or heard from her mother since Hurricane Katrina hit the Louisiana town where her ... (Read 146 times)

joe · **on:** Jun 18, 2018

Kate has not seen or heard from her mother since Hurricane Katrina hit the Louisiana town where her mother lived. She does not know for sure if her mother is dead or alive. Kate feels her mother's psychological presence even though she is not physically with her. Pauline Boss uses the term _____ to describe what Kate is feeling.

a. mental illness
b. delusional affect
c. ambiguous loss
d. trauma-induced psychosis

Question 2

The concept of marital happiness is transformed from an abstract concept to something measurable, such as a score of 80 or above on the Spousal Satisfaction Scale in a process called:

a. deductive research.
b. inductive research.
c. conceptualization.
d. operationalization.