Grief & Suicide Terms

Grief & Suicide Terms: M

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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Maintenance therapy	Ongoing care to manage a condition or disorder.
Major affective disorder	Alcoholism, bi-polar disorder, depression, schizophrenia.
Major depression	Severe disorder that impairs normal functioning.
Making final plans	Overt actions indicating imminent jeopardy.
Manipulated suicide	Completion induced by persuasion (Battin).
Manipulative suicide	Attempt with no intent to end life (Schneidman).
MAOI	Monoamine oxidase inhibitors; class of antidepressant medications.
Marginalized grief	See discounted grief.
Marker	Physiological indicator or predictor of suicide risk.
Masculine grief	Cognitive style of grieving common among men and some women.
Mass suicide	Completion of suicide by an organized or related group.
Meaning making	Attempting to understand the reason for a suicide or other loss.
Means	Firearms, rope, poison, etc., used to complete suicide; see lethal means.
Means restriction	Preventing access to weapons, drugs, etc.; detoxifying auto exhaust or cooking gas (CDC).
Media contagion	Suicides felt caused by press/TV/radio coverage of a death.
Medical futility	Point where further care or intervention would be of no benefit.
Medical model	View of suicide as a disease or caused by a disease.
Medicalization	Redefining a behavior as an illness or disease.
Medicide	See assisted suicide (Kevorkian).
Mercy booking	Police practice of jailing mentally ill individuals if no option exists.
Meta-analysis	Research reporting combining results from multiple studies.
Minor depression	Chronic mild disorder; see dysthymic disorder.
Modeling	Suicidal behavior in imitation of a celebrity death or other prior suicide.
Moderate depression	Many symptoms present; partly affects functioning.
Moral agent	Individual morally obligated to act when others are subject to harm.
Morbid grief reaction	See delayed grief,
Morbidity	Extent of a disease in a given population; ill health.
Mortality	Number of deaths in a given population in a given time frame.
Mortality study	Research on causes of death in a specific population.
Mourning	Outward individual demonstration of being bereaved.
Mourning ritual	Formalized expression of bereavement.
Multiple suicides	See mass suicide.
Murder-suicide	Victim commits homicide immediately before completing suicide.

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