therapeutic aim
1Therapeutic community — is a term applied to a participative, group based approach to long term mental illness and/or drug addiction that includes group psychotherapy as well as practical activities, and which may or may not be residential with the clients and… …
2therapeutic community — Residential units run on psychodynamic lines, first introduced for war time rehabilitation, then developed for those with neurotic and behaviour disorders. The aim is to create a therapeutic environment in which patients are actively involved in… …
3Community Therapeutic Care — is a new approach to dealing with acute malnutrition. Community based Therapeutic Care (CTC) was developed to improve the coverage and impact of selective feeding programs for the treatment of acute malnutrition. Its central innovation is to… …
4Forensic Network — The Forensic Network (the shortened name of the Forensic Mental Health Services Managed Care Network) is one of Scotland s Managed Clinical Networks [cite web |url=http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:97GDSqtpw7QJ:www.healthmanagementonline.co.uk/… …
5Fermagate — is a new inorganic phosphate binder developed for the control of blood plasma phosphate, a key therapeutic aim in the prevention of hyperphosphataemia in haemodialysis patients. It is currently under evaluation in clinical trials.Fermagate is an… …
6mental disorder — Any illness with a psychological origin, manifested either in symptoms of emotional distress or in abnormal behaviour. Most mental disorders can be broadly classified as either psychoses or neuroses (see neurosis; psychosis). Psychoses (e.g.,… …
7Clinical psychology — Psychology …
8Psychotherapy — The last half of the eighteenth century saw a big upsurge of interest in using the doctor–patient relationship therapeutically, which is the essence of medical psychotherapy. In France after 1750, there had been much writing on la médecine de… …
9Psychotherapy — is an interpersonal, relational intervention used by trained psychotherapists to aid s in problems of living. This usually includes increasing individual sense of well being and reducing subjective discomforting experience. Psychotherapists… …
10therapeutics — /ther euh pyooh tiks/, n. (used with a sing. v.) the branch of medicine concerned with the remedial treatment of disease. [1665 75; see THERAPEUTIC, ICS] * * * Treatment and care to combat disease or alleviate pain or injury. Its tools include… …
