Grief & Suicide Terms

Grief & Suicide Terms: T-Z

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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T
Talk therapy	Counseling and various forms of psychotherapy.
Tarasoff rule	Therapists must disclose client's threat to harm others.
TCA	Tricyclic antidepressant; traditional drug therapy for depression.
Terminal	Last phase of a fatal illness or condition.
Terminally ill	Medical prognosis of death in six months or less, generally.
Tertiary prevention	Attempt to lessen long-term effects of a problem.
Thanatology	Study of death, dying, bereavement, and grief.
Therapeutic alliance	Collaborative relationship with client established by therapist (Simon).
Therapeutic privilege	Physician withholding of information from a patient in the best interest of the patient.
To Live Again (TLA)	Support group for those who lost spouses or partners
Trauma	Threatening event causing feelings of fear, helplessness, and horror (DSM-IV).
Traumatic loss	Death that is sudden, unexpected, preventable and/or of a child.
Traumatic shock	Psychological state after an significant abnormal life experience.
Trigger	Factor which initiates and aggravates behavior or response.
Tryptophan hydroxylase (TPH)	Enzyme associated with serotonin; a marker.
Tunnel vision	View that life=pain vs. death=no pain; see constriction.


U
Underlying illness	Condition causing secondary manifestation of symptoms.
Under-reporting	Incidence of suicides not officially recorded as such.
Under-served	Inadequacy of existing services to the needs of a community or population.
Undertreatment	Delivery of a lesser quantity, quality, or range of care than indicated by an individual's need.
Undetermined intent	Classification of a death or an injury where victim's intentions are unclear.
Unethical	Action inconsistent with adopted ethical code or values.
Unexpected loss syndrome	Abnormal grief reaction associated with unexpected loss.
Unfinished business	Personal concerns or obligations to be resolved before death.
Unintentional underreporting	Mistaken mis-attribution of the cause of death in a suicide.
Unreported suicide	Completion that is misclassified or which cannot be conclusively classified as a suicide.
Universal intervention	Preventative measures directed at an entire population.
Unnatural death	Tragic, sudden, unexpected loss; loss of a child; homicide, suicide, etc.
Unresolved grief	Disrupted grieving process (e.g., delayed grief).


V
Validation	Learning from experience of other suicide grievers that "I'm not crazy."
Vehicular suicide	Completion by stepping into path of a vehicle or using a vehicle as means.
Ventured suicide	High risk behavior without suicidal intent (Baechler).
Veracity	Ethical duty to not deceive others.
Verbal clues	Spoken references to suicidal intent.
Victim	One harmed by circumstances beyond their control.
Victim-precipitated homicide	See suicide-by-cop (parent).
Vigilance	Grief state involving awareness of loss without constant focus (Smith).
Violent means	Suicide by firearms, hanging, slashing, falls.
Voluntary	Freely chosen individual action without coercion.
Vulnerability factor	Condition predisposing an individual to greater than normal risk (Ayd).


W
Warning sign	Overt indicator of suicidal risk of an individual.
Weather forecast	Metaphor characterizing the fluctuating level of risk in a suicidal individual (Simon).
Werther effect	Concept of completion or suicidal behavior as a consequence of mass media accounts of suicide (Phillips).
What-iffing guilt	Suicide griever obsession with "what if...?" (They did or did not do something.) (Wrobleski).
White man's disease	Allusion to predominance of adult white males among suicide victims.
Withdrawn behavior	Apathetic and unresponsive emotional state.
Work of grief	Release from ties to deceased (Freud).
Working through grief	Purposeful individual effort to resolve personal grief.
Wrobleski, Adina	Suicide survivor; authored a number of books for/about survivors.
Wrongful death	Death caused by negligence or other wrongful act.

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