{"id":3381,"date":"2026-05-26T10:47:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T15:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/student-behavioral-health\/?page_id=3381"},"modified":"2026-06-08T11:37:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:37:30","slug":"glossary","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/student-behavioral-health\/suicide-prevention-training\/glossary\/","title":{"rendered":"Recognize, Respond, Refer: Glossary of Key Terms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t\t
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  • Active listening<\/strong>: Listening with the intent to really understand what another person is saying, rather than listening
    \nwhile thinking about your own feelings, opinions, or how you are going to respond. Active listening also includes an
    \narray of responses that demonstrate you are listening and understanding.<\/li>\n
  • Boundaries<\/strong>: Limits we identify in order to set reasonable and safe ways for other people to behave toward us.
    \nThey vary from person to person based on their relationships, environments, and experiences. Healthy boundaries
    \nrequire attention and adjustment.<\/li>\n
  • Coping skills<\/strong>: Activities or strategies that can be used in the moment to lessen distress or manage strong emotions.<\/li>\n
  • Empathy<\/strong>: Understanding and sharing the feelings of another person.<\/li>\n
  • Recognize<\/strong>: The process of identifying specific warning signs in people around you that suggest they may be
    \nthinking about suicide or are struggling with their mental health. Your role on campus and the situations in which
    \nyou interact with students will influence what warning signs you might be able to recognize.<\/li>\n
  • Refer<\/strong>: A collaborative and ongoing process of determining what resources will be most useful for a person
    \nand connecting them to those resources.<\/li>\n
  • Reflections<\/strong>: Restatements of what someone has said in order to demonstrate that you were actively listening,
    \nand to ensure that you are accurately understanding the person\u2019s experience. Reflections of content involve
    \nrestating the ideas or information the person has provided. Reflections of emotion involve inferring what the
    \nperson is likely feeling, based on what they have said and how they have said it.<\/li>\n
  • Respond<\/strong>: Initiating a conversation with a student who may be in distress, using active listening, offering
    \na non-judgmental and compassionate space, and asking directly about suicide when appropriate.
    \nSecondary stress: The physical, mental, or emotional exhaustion caused by excessive and prolonged exposure to the
    \ndistress of others. Someone experiencing secondary stress may also feel responsible for fixing other people\u2019s distress.<\/li>\n
  • Socioecological model<\/strong>: A model that considers the complex interplay between individual, interpersonal,
    \norganizational, community, and policy factors. The nested rings illustrate how factors at each level can influence
    \nfactors at another level. When applied to suicide prevention, the model suggests it may be helpful to act upon
    \nmultiple levels at the same time.<\/li>\n
  • Stigma<\/strong>: Misinformed beliefs or attitudes that may result in harmful actions towards people with certain
    \ncharacteristics or experiences. Mental health stigma is when someone views a person in a negative way just
    \nbecause they have a mental health condition. Some people describe stigma as a feeling of shame or judgment
    \nfrom someone else or from society.<\/li>\n
  • Suicide<\/strong>: Death caused by self-directed, injury-causing behavior that was intended to cause death.<\/li>\n
  • Suicide<\/strong> attempt<\/strong>: When someone harms themselves with the intent to die by suicide. An attempt may be fatal or non-fatal.<\/li>\n
  • Suicidal ideation<\/strong>: Thinking about, considering, or planning for suicide. In Recognize, Respond, Refer trainings, we
    \nuse \u201csuicidal ideation\u201d and the phrase \u201cthinking about suicide\u201d to mean the same thing.<\/li>\n
  • Unconscious<\/strong> bias<\/strong>: Biases are automatic associations about others that individuals make based on their own
    \nbackgrounds, experiences, culture, as well as societal stereotypes. These predispositions toward something or someone
    \ntend to be unconscious\u2014that is, the individual is often not aware of these perceptions but they nonetheless shape
    \nbehavior towards others.<\/li>\n
  • Warning<\/strong> signs [of suicide]<\/strong>: Indicators that someone may be at a more immediate risk for suicide and may need help<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5788,"featured_media":0,"parent":3100,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3381","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","cfct-can-haz-build"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/student-behavioral-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/student-behavioral-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/student-behavioral-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/student-behavioral-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5788"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/student-behavioral-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3381"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/student-behavioral-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3449,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/student-behavioral-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3381\/revisions\/3449"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/student-behavioral-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wisconsin.edu\/student-behavioral-health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}