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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NARSAD | National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression. |
National Save A Life League | Suicide prevention group founded in new york city in 1906. |
Natural death laws | State laws allowing dying to refuse life-extending care. |
NBCC | National Board for Certified Counselors, Inc., accreditation body for mental health counselors. |
NCHS | National Center for Health Statistics; U.S. central suicide data repository. |
Negated death | See discounted grief. |
Neurobiology | Refers to the physiology of the brain and its study. |
Neurochemicals | Substances conveying messages in the brain. |
Neuron | Brain cell that processes information. |
Neurotransmitter | Neurochemical that attaches to a receptor in the brain. |
New normal | The "new" sense of self achieved after a traumatic loss (Wrobleski). |
NIMH | National Institute of Mental Health, U.S. federal agency charged with mental illness research and prevention. |
No harm contract | See no suicide contract. |
Noncompliance | Client or patient partial/total noncooperation with care plan. |
Nonlethal method | Means that may not be immediately fatal. |
Non-suicidal | Displaying no signs or symptoms of suicidality at the present time. |
Nonviolent means | See bloodless means. |
Noradrenergic function | Brain system associated with suicidal behavior when altered. |
Norepinephrine | Neurotransmitter associated with depression. |
Normal grief | Lasts less than 6 months; resolves without treatment. |
Normalcy | Individual's condition prior to onset of a disorder. |
Normative ethics | Ethical system intended to influence individual action. |
No suicide contract | Client agreement to not complete suicide. |
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Obligatory suicide | Ethical concept of suicide as a personal duty (Cosculluela). |
Open-ended group | Ongoing support group that can be entered at anytime. |
Opioid | An analgesic that is morphine-based. |
Organic suicide | Completion in response to serious physical illness and/or pain (Menninger). |
Organicity | Characteristic of a condition/disorder as organically-based. |
Other-driven suicide | Completion impelled by other person(s) wishes or actions(Fairbairn). |
Other-regarding suicide | See obligatory suicide. |
Outpatient care | Delivery of care or therapy at a clinic or center in the community. |
Overlap model | Suicide as result of an overlay of biology, heredity, and life events (Blumenthal/Kupfer). |
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