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Behavioral Disciplines and Activities > Psychotherapy > Crisis Intervention

Preferred term

Crisis Intervention  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Related concepts

Entry terms

  • Advice, Brief
  • Brief Advice
  • Brief Intervention
  • Brief Interventions
  • Brief Treatment
  • Brief Treatments
  • Critical Incident Stress Debriefing
  • Intervention, Brief
  • Screening and Brief Intervention
  • Treatment, Brief

Note

  • a psychother technique

Scope note

  • Brief therapeutic approach which is ameliorative rather than curative of acute psychiatric emergencies. Used in contexts such as emergency rooms of psychiatric or general hospitals, or in the home or place of crisis occurrence, this treatment approach focuses on interpersonal and intrapsychic factors and environmental modification. (APA Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 7th ed)

History note

  • 70

In other languages

  • kriisityö

    Finnish

  • kriisi-interventio
  • kriisihoito
  • kriisin hoito
  • kriisinhoito
  • kriisipsykoterapia
  • kriisiterapia
  • Kristerapi

    Swedish

  • Krisbehandling

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D003419

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