Grief & Suicide Terms

Grief & Suicide Terms: E & F

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E
E-coding	Standardized medical reporting codes for injury and illness. See icd-9.
Egoistic suicide	Type caused by lack of social ties (Durkheim).
Egotic suicide	Caused by an intrapersonal problem (Shneidman).
Eldercide	See elder suicide.
Elder suicide	Completion of suicide by an individual age 65 or over.
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)	Electrical current applied to the brain in treatment of extreme depression/suicidality.
EMDR (eye movement desens- itization & reprocessing)	New psychotherapy for grief/pain/PSTD.
Emotional pain	See psychological pain.
Endogenous depression	Organically-based disorder.
End-of-life care	Services of supportive nature for the terminally ill.
Endorphins	Natural morphine-like substances in the body.
Enkephalin	Opioid analgesic occurring naturally in the body.
Enshrinement	Idealization of a dead child by the parent(s).
Epidemiology	Study of nature, cause, and frequency of disease.
Equivocal death	Indeterminate cause (suicide vs. other).
Ethics	Principles guiding decisions and behavior.
Ethical code	See code of ethics.
Ethical dilemma	Situation in which an individual faces conflicting obligations.
Ethical duty	See duty.
Ethical problem	Interpersonal or organizational issue with ethical aspects.
Etiology	The cause of a disease, disorder, or other phenomenon.
Eulogy	Remarks on behalf of the recently deceased.
Euthanasia	("Good death") death caused by other than the deceased to relieve suffering.
Everyperson intervention	Basic caring about a suicidal individual by a concerned lay person (Rickgairn).
Existential suicide	Completing suicide because "life isn't worth it."
Expendable child syndrome	Adolescent belief that parents want her/him dead.
Experimental action	Gradual progression to a lethal act by an ambivalent suicidal individual (Clark).
Experimental study	Research design with randomized control groups.


F
Facilitated suicide	Completion occurs because of clinician indifference.
Facilitating suicide	Legal term for helping in a suicide completion.
False negative	Identifying a suicidal person as non-suicidal.
False positive	Identifying a non-suicidal person as suicidal.
Familicide-suicide	Homicide of one or more family members by suicide completer.
Family history	Presence of disorder or risk factors or occurrence of suicide in parents, sibs, etc.
Family therapy	Combination of group and individual problem-solving sessions with family members.
Fantasy rationale	Suicide felt to be caused by wish for rebirth, revenge, etc.
Fatalistic suicide	Associated with "passions violently checked by aggressive discipline" (Durkheim).
Feminine grief	Expressive, emotional grieving common to women and some men.
Fiduciary responsibility	General ethical duty to act in the client's best interest.
Filicide-suicide	Homicide of one or more offspring by suicide completer.
Firearms suicide	Use of handgun, rifle, shot gun as the lethal means.
First-degree relative	Parent, sibling, child; risk assessment term.
5-HIAA	(5-hydroxy tryptamine) metabolic product of serotonin.
Flashback	Recurrent recollection of a traumatic event.
Focal suicides	Self-mutilation and deliberate accidents (Menninger).
Forensic	Associated with the law enforcement or criminal justice systems.
Forfeited patients	Seriously mentally ill individuals who resist efforts to treat them (Whitmer).
Frozen grief	Stalling of grieving process because of ambiguous loss (Boss).
Frustration	Inability to meet an important personal need or drive.
Frustration tolerance	Ability to deal with frustration without psychological harm.
Functional impairment	Prolonged inability to manage activities of daily living because of psychological/physical disability.

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