Essential Terms Associated with Suicide
Also known as copycat suicides.
What is cluster suicides?
The second leading cause of death for 10-34 year olds
What is suicide?
Risk for self-mutilation or self-harm
What is a nursing diagnosis for a suicidal patient?
Most severe bipolar disorder with major shifts in mood, energy, and ability to function.
What is Type I bipolar disorder?
An abnormal lack of energy, may result in psychomotor retardation.
What is anergia?
When healthcare providers provide mental healthcare and support to survivors
What is postvention?
Use plastic utensils, no private room, keep door open at all times, no cords or harmful objects, lock doors to non-patient areas, and search belongings.
What is environmental safety guidelines for suicide?
Coping, Effective Social Support, Adherence to Treatment
What are identified outcomes of Nursing Process with suicidal patients?
The oldest, most known and most studied brain stimulation therapy; works by passing an electric current through the brain.
What is ECT (Electroconvulsive Therapy)?
The outward representation of a person's internal state.
What is person's affect?
Thinking about death, including the wish to be dead, considering methods of accomplishing death, and forming a plan to act it out.
What is suicidal ideation?
Theorist who said "aggression turned inward".
Who is Sigmund Freud?
Psychosocial interventions, health teaching and health promotion, case management, milieu therapy, documentation of care, postvention....
What are components of Nursing Implementation and Evaluation?
A continuous flow of accelerated speech with abrupt changes from topic to topic.
What is Flight of Ideas?
The model of depression that considers the interplay between genetic and biological predisposition toward depression and life events.
What is Diathesis-Stress model?
Injury that is intentional damage to one's own body tissue, without conscious suicidal intent, and for purposes not socially or culturally sanctioned.
What is Non-suicidal Injury (NSSI)?
Religious beliefs, family values, sexual orientation, gender identify, attitude towards death, bullying behaviors.
What are cultural factors of suicide?
Pharmacotherapy for comorbid disorders, and brain stimulation therapy to decrease ideation.
What is biological treatments for suicidal ideations?
Also known as antiepileptics, developed to treat seizures
What are anti-convulsant drugs?
A rare and life-threatening event associated with SSRIs; overactivation of serotonin receptors
What is serotonin-syndrome?
A retrospective investigation into a person's mental state before suicide to understand the causes
What is a psychological autopsy?
Anxiety disorders, personality disorders, eating disorders, trauma-related disorders
What is comorbidities that increase the risk for suicide?
Limit setting for safety, developing self-esteem, discovery of motive and its role, discovering self-control, replacement with coping skills, and entering maintenance phase
What is the Six-Step Approach to Planning?
A chronic, mild form of bipolar disorder characterized by mood swings, fluctuating between mild depression and emotional highs for at least two years.
What is Cyclothymic disorder?
Electrical stimulation of the longest cranial nerve, extending from brainstem to organs in the neck, chest and abdomen; improves mood and enhances action of antidepressants.
What is Vagus Nerve Stimulation?