preventive intervention
collocation in Englishmeaningsofpreventiveandintervention
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preventive
adjective[before noun]
uk/prɪˈven.tɪv/us/prɪˈven.t̬ɪv/
intended to stop something before ...
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intervention
noun
uk/ˌɪn.təˈven.ʃən/us/ˌɪn.t̬ɚˈven.ʃən/
the action of becoming intentionally involved in a difficult situation, in order to improve it or prevent it from ...
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Preventiveinterventionand outcome with anxiously attached dyads.
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Emotion processes in normal and abnormal development andpreventiveintervention.
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Implications for adult psychopathology andpreventiveinterventionare discussed.
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Implications for future research andpreventiveinterventionare discussed.
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Testing emotion theories of internalizing throughpreventiveintervention.
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Consenting women were randomly allocated to eitherpreventiveinterventionor routine primary care.
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Another aspect of the present study that merits discussion concerns the goal of thispreventiveintervention.
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Evaluation of indicatedpreventiveintervention(secondary prevention) mental health programs for children and adolescents.
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Specific hypotheses regarding the outcomes of a genetically informedpreventiveinterventiontrial would be twofold.
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Preventiveinterventionmethods may provide an important avenue for determining which of these models is correct.
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Somepreventiveinterventionprograms are relatively brief and are completed in a few hours or days.
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We attempt to identify precursors of these problems that could signal the need forpreventiveintervention.
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It is not the case thatpreventiveinterventionstudies have been designed to answer these questions.
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Anypreventiveinterventionmust be assessed as rigorously as a treatment technology.
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Thepreventiveinterventionmay support and maintain healthy development or redirect unhealthy development.
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A consequence is that thepreventiveinterventionwas actually curative for some women.
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Detecting and describingpreventiveinterventioneffects in a universal school-based randomized trial targeting delinquent and violent behavior.
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Improved comprehension of the neurobiological processes that increase risk of maladaptive development may also suggest novel targets forpreventiveintervention.
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The randomized multimodalpreventiveinterventiontargeted a subsample of boys who were rated disruptive by their kindergarten teacher.
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Of central importance, we demonstrated thatpreventiveinterventioncan foster the development of the executive regulatory system.
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Bringing basic research on early experience and stress neurobiology to bear onpreventiveinterventionresearch on neglected and maltreated children.
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This finding may constitute sufficient evidence to support the adoption of thepreventiveinterventionin routine practice.
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Despite this, several themes appear to be emerging that may provide some guidance inpreventiveinterventiondesigns.
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Preventiveinterventionshould be quite possible, since, from the neurodevelopmental perspective described above, the unfolding of the clinical illness is a long-term process.
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