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Grief & Suicide Terms: C

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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Cadaver	The body of a deceased person.
Capacity	Clinical determination of individual capability.
Case-controlled	See controls.
Case history	Documented account of a specific individual or victim.
Case management	Managed care process to control the use and cost of health care services.
Case manager	HMO or provider-based nurse or social worker who monitors service delivery to clients/patients.
Catastrophization	Aggravating present pain by anticipating more severe future pain (Turk et al.).
Cause	Something which if removed will prevent occurrence of an event.
CDC	Centers for disease control; U.S. Public Health Service Agency.
Chemical deficiency	Depletion of a neurotransmitter (e.g., serotonin).
Chemical imbalance	See chemical deficiency.
Cholesterol level	Low level linked to violent deaths among males.
Cholesterol-serotonin hypothesis	Postulates link between low levels of these substances and suicide risk (Kaplan et al.).
Chronic grief	Continuance of acute grief reactions over time.
Chronic grief syndrome	Abnormal grief reaction with loss of deeply dependent relationship.
Chronic pain	Pain persisting for at least six months.
Chronic suicidal ideation	Ongoing, transient, intermittent suicidal ideation. (Sivak et al.)
Chronic suicider	Individual engaged in repeated acts of suicidal behavior leading to suicide (Berent).
Chronically suicidal	History of multiple episodes of suicidality or suicide attempts.
Client	Patients of behavioral health clinicians and therapists.
Clinician	Physician, nurse, psychologist, social worker, psychiatrist, counselor, or other professional caregiver.
Closed-ended group	Support group proceeding on a fixed time frame.
Cluster suicides	Chain of completed suicides by youths in contiguous geographic areas.
Code of ethics	Formal standards of professional conduct.
Cognitive reappraisal	Tactic for dealing with negative thoughts, such as suicidal ideation.
Cognitive therapy	Identification/correction of thinking patterns that cause problem feelings and/or behaviors.
Cognitively impaired	Individual having a psychiatric or developmental disorder affecting comprehension.
Cohort	Group having one or more characteristics in common (e.g., age).
Cohort analysis	Studying suicide rates by age groupings.
Committal service	Pre-internment service; before burial.
Communication model	View of suicide as an interpersonal problem resolution strategy.
Comorbidity	Concurrence of two or more conditions or disorders.
Compassionate friends	Support group for parents who had a child die.
Competence	Legal determination of individual capability to act on one's own behalf.
Completion	See suicide completion.
Complete suicide	Succumb to the suicide process by taking one's life; see penacide.
Completer	See suicide completer.
Complicated grief	See complicated mourning.
Complicated mourning	Difficult long-term state after traumatic loss.
Complicating factors	Conditions that increase the severity and intensity of grief.
Confidentiality	Maintaining privacy of individual medical records.
Confidentiality waiver	Patient authorization to disclose suicide risk.
Conflict of interest	Situation in which meeting one ethical duty violates another.
Conflicted grief	Occurs in losses involving ambivalent or troubled relationships.
Conjugal loss	Death of a spouse by any means.
Constriction	Narrowing of a suicidal individual's outlook and options (Shneidman).
Contagion	Risk arising from exposure to suicidal behavior in family, peer group, or media.
Contracting for safety	See no suicide contract.
Contributing factors	Conditions or situations causing depression (e.g., marital or job problems).
Control group	See controls.
Controls	Individuals in comparative research studies that lack the variable under study.
Co-occuring disorders	See dual diagnosis.
Coping	Individual approach to dealing with distressful situations.
Cop suicide	Incidence of suicide in law enforcement (high risk population).
Copycat suicide	See suicide contagion
Cortisol	Stress hormone; possible suicide marker.
Criminalize	Arrest, book, or jail a mentally ill person; regarding an act as a crime.
Crisis intervention	Short-term care for a behavioral health emergency.
Crisis intervention team	School personnel prepared for post-vention after student attempt/death.
Crisis resolution	Amelioration of a behavioral health emergency.
Cry for help	Expression of suicidal intent in the hope of assistance or rescue.
Cult suicide	Form of mass suicide completed by a sect as a group.
Cumulative loss	Succession of deprivations/frustrations causing stress or pain.
Cumulative risks	Sequence of progressive or additional levels of exposure to harm.
Cutting	Self-mutilation with blade or blade-like implement.

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