Grief & Suicide Terms |
Grief & suicide terms, words and phrases are often used by crisis counselors and others in the health-care field. You can study these and/or copy them to your dictionary.
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| GABA | Gammo-aminobutyric acid; inhibitory neurotransmitter. |
| Gatekeeper program | Use of school/community contact people to identify at-risk youth, elders. |
| Gender differences | In grieving or suicidal behavior, dissimilar behavior by men and women. |
| Gender-specific | Suicide rate broken down by sex. |
| Generativity | Sense of connection between generations; lost or weakened by the death of a child. |
| Genetic marker | See marker. |
| Genetic model | view of suicide as influenced by heredity or genetic transmission of risk |
| Genuine suicide | Completion resulting from victim's intention to end one's life (Shneidman). |
| Geriatric suicide | See elder suicide. |
| Gesturer | Individual associated with one or more suicide gesture. |
| Gesturing at suicide | (AKA gestured suicide) see suicide gesture. |
| Grief | Personal emotion associated with loss of a loved one. |
| Grief counselor | Clinician serving the needs of the bereaved. |
| Grief integration | Incorporating grief as an ongoing part of the bereaved's life. |
| Grief process | Individual course of grief following loss of a loved one. |
| Grief reaction | Feelings/emotions accompanying grief (e.g., guilt, anger). |
| Grief resolution | Outcome of "normal" grieving; abatement of grief. |
| Grief work | Bereaved individual's efforts to accept reality of loss. |
| Griever | Individual involved in the process of grieving. |
| Group suicide | See mass suicide. |
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| Hari Kari | Ritualistic suicide in japan by a defeated/disgraced individual. |
| Heal | Whole or partial recovery from injury, illness, or loss. |
| Healing | Process of recovery from injury, illness, or loss. |
| Heaven's gate | Mass suicide of 38 cult members in San Diego, CA, in 1997. |
| Helper's principle | Idea that those who help others enhance their own self-esteem in the process. |
| Hemlock Society | Organization advocating the "right to suicide." |
| Hidden grief | Solitary mourning; grieving pattern common to men. |
| Hidden suicide | Indirect self-harming behavior (Meerlo). |
| High risk factor | Social variable associated with high incidence of suicide or harm. |
| High risk group | Population segment with a high suicide rate. |
| History | Individual's mental health or suicidal behavior background. |
| Homicide-suicide | See murder-suicide. |
| Hopelessness | Extent of individual's negative feelings about the future (Beck et al.). |
| Hospice | Provider serving terminally ill and a bereavement support resource. |
| Hypervigilance | Grief state involving exclusive preoccupation with loss (Smith). |
| Hypoactive | State of hopelessness, low self-esteem, and passiveness. |
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| Iatrogenic | Harm inadvertently caused to a patient by a clinician. |
| ICD-9 | International classification of diseases, 9th revision; suicide = codes e950-e959. |
| Ideator | Individual experiencing suicidal ideation. |
| If onlys | Griever obsession with contingencies that might have averted loss. |
| Incapacity | Inability to understand and act on received information. |
| Incidence | Number of new suicides in a given population in a given time span. |
| Incompetent | Inability to perform necessary duties or functions. |
| Index suicide | Initial completion precipitating a suicide cluster; see stimulus event. |
| Indicated intervention | Preventative measures directed at individuals showing risk factors. (Gordon). |
| Indirect suicide | Death as unintended result of high risk behavior. |
| Inhume | Internment; burial or entombment of the deceased. |
| Injury events | Epidemiological term for accidents, homicides, and suicides. |
| Inpatient | Individual admitted to a stay at a hospital or institution. |
| Inpatient suicide | Completion of suicide by patient at a hospital or institution. |
| Intent | Individual's desire to die and belief that death would follow action. |
| Intent, first degree | Completion was planned by the victim. |
| Intent, second degree | Completion was impulsive and unplanned on part of the victim. |
| Intent, third degree | Voluntary self-injury with low completion intention on the part of the attempter. |
| Intentional underreporting | Purposeful misrepresentation of a suicide death as due to another cause. |
| Interdisciplinary | Involving more than one clinical/scientific discipline. |
| Interpersonal suicide | Completion associated with the loss of an interpersonal relationship. |
| Interpersonal therapy | Addresses patient's relationships with family, friends, and co-workers. |
| Inquest | Coroner's investigation to establish cause of death. |
| Intervener | Individual involved in effort to prevent an attempter from completing suicide. |
| Intervention | Interceding to prevent harm or reduce risk. |
| Involuntary hospitalization | See involuntary commitment (AKA involuntary civil commitment) . |
| Involuntary commitment | Short-term emergency hospitalization of an individual deemed a danger to self/others. |
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