Grief & Suicide Terms

Grief & Suicide Terms: A

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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Abandonment	Unilateral discontinuation of patient relationship and treatment by a clinician.
Abnormal grief	Prolonged, difficult, complicated response associated with traumatic loss. See unresolved grief.
Abnormal grief reaction	Individual behavioral and/or emotional condition caused by a severe loss.
Abuser	Individual that engages in substance abuse.
Access	Capability of an individual or group to receive needed services.
Accessibility	Proximity to lethal means by a suicidal individual.
Active euthanasia	See direct euthanasia.
Active intervention	Activities that involve a change of behavior by an at-risk individual.
Active listening	Hotline intervention technique to reaffirm what caller says he/she feels.
Active suicidal ideation	State of acute thought of completing suicide associated with imminent risk (Sivak et al.)
acute	Sharp, sudden, severe or short-term (e.g., acute grief).
Acute mourning	Initial phase of disorientation, dulled senses, denial, yearning.
Acute psychiatric crisis	Individual that is suicidal, psychotic, or experiencing other severe trauma.
Acute stress reaction	Individual response to traumatic external event lasting 3 months or less.
Acute suicide threat	Individual has lethal means and voices intent.
Adjunctive therapy	Occupational, recreational, creative therapies used with other treatments or alone.
Adolescent suicide	Completion of suicide by a youth between ages 11-18.
Adolescent suicide syndrome	Characterized by impulsiveness, reactive, aggression towards self, social loss.
Adult suicide	Completion of suicide by an individual between ages 19-64.
Adverse event	Unforeseen or unexpected and undesired outcome of medical treatment.
Affect	Psychological state, e.g., feeling, mood, demeanor, or emotion.
Affective education	School program to help students better understand their feelings and recognize risk.
Aftercare	Post-loss support services to the bereaved or other traumatized individuals. See post-vention.
Age-correspondence reaction	Acute grief triggered by age similarity to lost loved one.
Age-specific	Suicide rate broken down by age groupings (see Cohort).
Agenerative suicide	Caused by personal alienation (Shneidman).
Agitation	Extreme restlessness common in individuals in suicidal crisis (see psychomotor agitation).
Alcohol myopia	Effect of alcohol on thought processes that may be associated with a propensity to suicide (Rogers).
Alienation	Feeling of being apart from or unattached to others.
Alliance for safety	Joint plan between clinician and client with shared goal to prevent suicide (Gutheil).
Altruistic suicide	Suicide as self-sacrifice (Durkheim).
Ambiguous grief	Occurs when loss is psychologically felt but not physically confirmed.
Ambivalence	Suicidal individual's wish to both live and die.
Ambivalent attempt	Attempted suicide involving nonlethal means and felt to not be intended to result in death.
Amputation metaphor	Loss analogy commonly used by grieving parents (e.g., loss of child like loss of limb).
Anaclitic depression	Depressive disorder caused by loss of parent or other dependent relationship.
Analgesia	The process and outcome of relieving or reducing pain.
Analgesic	Medication that controls or reduces pain.
Anatomy of melancholy	Text by Robert Burton (1577-1640) giving first modern interpretation of suicide.
Anhedonia	Inability to experience pleasure; a traumatic loss reaction.
Anniversary reaction	Worsening or return of grieving on dates related to the loss.
Anniversary trigger	Idea that people tend to die near key dates in their lives.
Anomic suicide	Type caused by a disrupted relationship (Durkheim).
Anticipatory grief	Grief in expectation of a terminally ill loved one's death (Lindemann).
Antidepressants	Psychotropic medications used to treat depression.
Anti-Suicide Bureau	First "crisis center" established by The Salvation Army in 1906.
Anti-suicide contract	See no suicide contract and alliance for safety.
Anxiolytics	Medications that reduce anxiety.
Appropriate death	Terminally ill individual's chosen manner of dying.
Assisted suicide	Completion of suicide by a terminally ill or suffering individual with the aid of a physician or other clinician.
Assumptive world	Griever's personal values and beliefs undermined or disrupted by her/his loss.
Asymptomatic	Without symptoms or signs of disease or disorder.
Attempted suicide	Unsuccessful, potentially lethal effort to complete suicide.
At-risk	Subject to the possibility of suicide, or other harmful outcomes.
Autocide	Use of a motor vehicle to complete suicide.
Auto-euthanasia	Euphemism for suicide involving a suffering individual.
Autonomy	Ethical principle of individual self-determination.
Autopsy	Examination of a body to determine the cause of death and other medical information.
Availability	Presence of a resource (e.g., support group) that may be needed by an individual or group.
Availability of means	Accessibility to lethal means by a suicidal individual.

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