CRISIS INTERVENTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does crisis intervention mean? 

• CRISIS INTERVENTION (noun)
  The noun CRISIS INTERVENTION has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: CRISIS INTERVENTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRISIS INTERVENTION (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)

 Context examples 

Crisis intervention is not meant to solve the problem that led up to the crisis.

(Crisis intervention, NCI Dictionary)