crisis intervention

1. 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

   Broaderpsychotherapy

Questions about crisis intervention

What does crisis intervention mean?

crisis intervention means "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".

Is crisis intervention a common word?

crisis intervention is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.