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Para suicide
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unsuccessful attempts to kill oneself
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Suicide
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is defined as anintentioned death—a self-inflicted death in which one makes an intentional,direct, and conscious effort to endone’s life.
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death seeker
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a person who clearly intends to endhis or her life at the time of a suicide attempt
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death initiator
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a person who attempts suicidebelieving that the process of death is already under way and that he or she issimply hastening the process
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death ignorer
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a person who attempts suicide withoutrecognizing the finality of death. they do not believe that their self-inflicted death will mean the end oftheir existence. They believe they are trading their present lives for a better or happierexistence.
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death darer
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a person who experience mixed feelings, or is ambivalent about thewish to die even as he or she attempts suicide.
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Sub intentional death
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a death inwhich a victim plays an indirect, hidden, partial, or unconscious role (tobacco use)
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retrospective analysis
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A psychologicalautopsy in which clinicians and researcherspiece together information about a person’ssuicide from the person’s past
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hopelessness
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A pessimistic belief that one’s present circumstances, problems,or mood will not change.
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dichotomous thinking
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Viewing problems and solutions in rigid either/or terms.
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Egoistic suicide
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suicidecommitted by people over whom society has little or control, people who are notinhabited by the norms or rules of society.
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Altruistic suicide
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suicidecommitted by people who intentionally sacrifice their lives for the well-beingof society.
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Anomic suicide
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suicidecommitted by individuals whose social environment fails to provide stability,thus leaving them without a sense of belonging.
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suicideprevention program
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A program that tries to identify peoplewho are at risk of killing themselves and to offer them crisis intervention.
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crisisintervention
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A treatment approach that tries to helppeople in a psychological crisis to view their situation more accurately, makebetter decisions, act more constructively, and overcome the crisis.
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