Suicide intervention
Suicide Intervention
Suicide intervention (pronunciation: soo-uh-sahyd in-ter-ven-shuhn) is a direct effort to prevent a person or persons from attempting to take their own life or lives intentionally.
Etymology
The term "suicide" comes from the Latin suicidium, from sui caedere, "to kill oneself". "Intervention" is derived from the Latin intervenire, meaning "to come between, interrupt".
Definition
Suicide intervention involves several strategies that all aim to reduce the risk of suicide. These strategies include direct interventions, such as talking and listening to the person at risk, and indirect interventions, such as improving mental health care systems and policies.
Related Terms
- Crisis Intervention: A type of immediate and short-term psychological care aimed at assisting individuals in a crisis situation to restore equilibrium to their biopsychosocial functioning and to minimize the potential for psychological trauma.
- Suicide Prevention: The collective efforts of local citizen organizations, health professionals and related professionals to reduce the incidence of suicide.
- Mental Health: The level of psychological well-being or an absence of mental illness. It is the state of someone who is "functioning at a satisfactory level of emotional and behavioral adjustment".
- Psychotherapy: The use of psychological methods, particularly when based on regular personal interaction, to help a person change behavior and overcome problems in desired ways.
- Crisis Hotline: A phone number people can call to get immediate emergency telephone counseling, usually by trained volunteers.
- Psychiatrist: A medical doctor specializing in mental health, including substance use disorders.
- Psychologist: A professional specializing in diagnosing and treating diseases of the brain, emotional disturbance, and behavior problems.
- Counselor: A person trained to give guidance on personal, social, or psychological problems.
See Also
- Mental Health First Aid
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy
- Suicide Assessment
External links
- Medical encyclopedia article on Suicide intervention
- Wikipedia's article - Suicide intervention
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