Suicide Flashcards
Death seekers
Clearly intend to end their life at the tie of suicide
Death initiators
Cleary intend to end their life but act out of the belief that the process of death is already under way and they are just speeding up the process
Death ignorers
Do not believe that suicide will mean the end of their existence (children)
Death darers
Ambivalent about their intent to die
Subintetional death
Indirect/covert/partial role in own death (drugs, self-injury)
Suicide gender differences
More women attempt suicide, but more men die from it > different methods
Dichotomous thinking
View problems and solutions in rigid either/or terms
Durkheim and suicide
The probability of suicide is determined by how attached one is to their social groups
Egotistic suicide
People over whom society has no control, not concerned with norms, alienated
Altruistic suicide
Sacrifice their life
Anomic suicide
People whose social environment failed to provide stable structures of support and give meaning to life > no sense of belonging, feel let down by society
Interpersonal theory of suicide
People are more likely to commit suicide if they hold 2 key views: perceived burdensomeness and thwarted belongingness + have the psychological to carry it out
