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Intervention vs Therapeutic - What's the difference?

intervention | therapeutic |

As a noun intervention

is intervention (act of intervening).

As an adjective therapeutic is

of, or relating to therapy.

intervention

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=October 29 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Chelsea 3 - 5 Arsenal , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Fernando Torres was recalled in place of the suspended Didier Drogba and he was only denied a goal in the opening seconds by Laurent Koscielny's intervention - a moment that set the tone for game filled with attacking quality and littered with errors.}}
  • (US, legal) A legal motion through which a person or entity who has not been named as a party to a case seeks to have the court order that they be made a party.
  • An orchestrated attempt to convince somebody with an addiction or other psychological problem to seek professional help and/or change their behavior.
  • Derived terms

    * divine intervention * interventionism * macrointervention * microintervention

    therapeutic

    English

    Alternative forms

    * therapeutick (obsolete)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, or relating to therapy.
  • Having a positive effect on the body or mind.
  • * Sir Thomas Browne
  • Therapeutic or curative physic.
  • * Isaac Watts
  • Medicine is justly distributed into prophylactic, or the art of preserving health, and therapeutic , or the art of restoring it.

    Synonyms

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