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| Quality of life |
Relative state of individual well-being/functioning. |
| QPR |
"Question, persuade, and refer"; suicide prevention program (QPR Institute). |
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| Rational suicide |
Presumption of reasonable choice by the terminally ill. |
| Reactive depression |
Identified as linked to a particular situation or life event; acute. |
| Reasonable care |
The average standard of a clinician's profession. |
| Reasons for dying |
Set of faulty, self-biased beliefs that may be voiced by a suicidal individual. |
| Rebirth suicide |
Completion as strategy to "start over" or become something else. |
| Receptor |
Target of a neurotransmitter. |
| Reconstruction |
Bereaved's recasting of past events or relationships linked to lost loved one. |
| Recovery guilt |
Discomfort with feelings of happiness or peace of mind after loss. |
| Refractory |
Resistant or unresponsive to treatment or intervention. |
| Relative risk |
Ratio of at-risk to non-risk individuals in a group. |
| Remission |
Period of temporary abatement of symptoms in an ill individual. |
| Repeater |
Individual with history of suicide attempts. |
| Residential program |
Alternative to hospitalization, homelike supportive care setting. |
| Respite suicide |
Completion to escape disappointment or to relieve pain or stress (Tanney). |
| Respondent suicide |
Suicide survivor suicide attributed to "joining" the initial victim. |
| Rescue |
Successful intervention in a suicide attempt. |
| Rescue fantasy |
Belief that some suicidal individuals expect to be saved. |
| Rescuing |
Increasingly zealous efforts by clinician to prevent completion by a chronically suicidal individual (Gabbard). |
| Revenge suicide |
See message of anger. |
| Reunion suicide |
Completion related to death of a loved one or wish to join her/him (Wohl). |
| Rewired |
Refers to negative change in brain structure due to abuse, drugs, or other trauma. |
| Right to die |
Individual self-determination of when and how to die. |
| Right to suicide |
View that an individual may rationally choose to end their life. |
| Risk |
Exposure or vulnerability to harm, disease, or death. |
| Risk factor |
Attribute associated with the likelihood of suicide. |
| Risk management |
Effort to lessen exposure to liability or an adverse event or outcome. |
| Risk reduction |
Individual behavior change to lessen risk/exposure. |
| Ritualistic suicide |
See obligatory suicide. |
| Role loss |
Personal identification (e.g., being a spouse) lost due to death. |
| Rule of double effect |
Balancing good acts/intentions with foreseeable bad outcomes of an action. |
| Rule of thirds |
1/3 recover completely; 1/3 improve with treatment; 1/3 remain chronic or unresponsive. |
| Rural suicide |
Incidence of suicide in non-urban/non-suburban areas. |
