Grief & Suicide Terms

Grief & Suicide Terms: D

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Danger signs	See warning sign.
Death & dying	Catch-all term for grief services, hospice, palliative care.
Death guilt	See survivor guilt.
Decathexis	Cognitive separation, e.g., detachment from deceased.
Decompensation	Breakdown of individual psychic supports.
Decriminalization	Eliminating criminal penalty for an act or behavior.
Delayed grief	Bereavement occurring years or decades after the loss.
Delayed stress reaction	Response to traumatic event after 6 months or more.
Deliverance	See self-deliverance.
Denial	Refusal to accept that a loss has occurred.
Departing drugs	Euthnasia movement term for lethal medications used to bring about death.
Depression	Disorder involving abnormal sadness and hopelessness.
Depressive episode	Period in which an individual shows multiple signs of depression.
DHHS	U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Diagnosis	Clinical identification of cause and nature of a condition.
Diagnosable	Refers to conditions meeting accepted criteria of a specific disease or disorder.
Dichotomous thinking	Increasingly rigid thought processes and loss of ability to see options to death by a suicidal individual.
Direct destructive behavior	Suicidal ideation, attempts, and completions.
Direct euthanasia	Intentionally causing death to end individual suffering.
Disclosure	Act of releasing information given in confidence by a client or patient.
Discounted grief	Lack of nominal or negligible social validation of a loss by others. AKA marginalized grief.
Disease	Bodily failure to counteract negative processes.
Disease model	See medical model.
Disease of the "d"s	Dysfunction, disuse, disability, depression, dramatic complaints, and/or drug misuse.
Disease process	Course of a disease from onset to outcome.
Disease-related depression	Occurs in reaction to a physical illness or disorder.
Disenfranchise	Deprive of a right or an entitlement.
Disenfranchised grief	Grief that is denied or restricted by social pressure or other interference. See discounted grief.
Disorder	Clinically significant psychological condition (DSM-IV).
Disorder-based suicidality	Vulnerability due to a psychiatric disorder's effect on personal control.
Distorted mourning	See complicated mourning.
Distal risk factors	Secondary, nonprecipitating elements related to suicide.
Diversion	Directing the mentally ill who come in contact with police to mental health service rather than jail.
Double depression	Co-occurrence of major depression and chronic minor depression (Ayd).;
Double effect	Capability of some analgesics to both relieve pain and cause death if used inappropriately.
Double suicide	Completion by spouses, other couple or by two friends.
Dsm-iv	"Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders" (4th edition).
Dual diagnosis	Determined to have two distinct conditions, e.g., depression and substance abuse.
Durkheim, Emile	French sociologist; wrote "suicide" (1897).
Dutiful suicide	Suicide as culturally defined obligation (Fairbairn).
Duty	Obligatory action or behavior owed to a client by a clinician.
Duty of care	Clinician obligation to give reasonable care to a patient or client.
Duty to warn	Ethical obligation to disclose the risk of suicide or other harm to a third party.
Dyadic suicide	Completion caused by an interpersonal problem (Shneidman).
Dysthymic disorder	Depression, loss of interest and enjoyment; minor depression.

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