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CRISIS INTERVENTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Psychotherapy that focuses on acute critical situations (depressive episodes or attempted suicides or drug overdoses) with the aim of restoring the person to the level of functioning before the crisis
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("crisis intervention" is a kind of...):
psychotherapy (the treatment of mental or emotional problems by psychological means)
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