Suicide, Risks, Disasters, Violence, Religion, Spirituality & Death

Vocabulary flashcards related to Suicide, Risks, Disasters, Violence, Religion, Spirituality & Death.

Social Integration

The degree to which individuals are connected to their society; a lack of this can lead to egoistic suicides.

Social Regulation

The extent to which society controls individual behaviors; a lack of this can lead to anomic suicides.

Egoistic Suicides

Suicides resulting from a lack of social integration, where individuals feel isolated from society.

Altruistic Suicides

Suicides resulting from excessive social integration, where individuals sacrifice themselves for the group.

Anomic Suicides

Suicides resulting from a lack of social regulation, often during times of social upheaval or instability.

Fatalistic Suicides

Suicides resulting from excessive social regulation, where individuals feel oppressed by society's rules.

Culture

A major influence on suicide risk, encompassing cultural messages, norms, socialization, and disruption.

Intervention

Services intended as a short-term resource for individuals in crisis.

Postvention

Efforts that can play an important role in suicide prevention after a suicide has occurred.

Peril

The risk of being injured, destroyed, or lost, evident in accidents, disasters, violence, war, terrorism, and emerging epidemic diseases.

Disaster

A life-threatening event that affects many people, usually within a brief period, bringing sudden or great misfortune, resulting from natural phenomena or human activities.

Emerging Diseases

Infections whose incidence in humans has increased within the past two decades or threatens to increase in the near future.

Blaming the victim

A means of coping that allows individuals to feel comfortable continuing an activity, despite the risks.

Durkheim - Sociological Theories

Social cohesion and functions of religion.

Berger - Sociological Theories

Social protection and functions of religion.

Symbolic Interactionism

Involves shared meaning about immortality or continuation of the self.

The Sacre and the Profane

The use of rituals, the sacred cosmos, and the sacred canopy.

Near-Death Experiences (NDEs)

Profound psychological events with transcendental and mystical elements, typically occurring to individuals close to death or in intense danger.

Neurological Theories of NDEs

Originating in the brain/nervous system, drug-related, sensory deprivation.

Psychological Theories of NDEs

Depersonalization, motivated fantasy, archetypes.

Metaphysical Theories of NDEs

Soul travel, psychic vision.