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Grief & Suicide Terms

Grief & Suicide Terms: N & O

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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