Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to, characterized by, or tending to intervention.
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- adjective Serving to
intervene orinterpose ;intervening .
Etymologies
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Examples
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On the same point, if you can easily go to the doctor, get interventive care in regards to personal health with cost concealment, why spend the money or the time taking care of your personal health when a third-party payer stands ready to pick up the tab?
Reality and Health Care Spending, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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On the same point, if you can easily go to the doctor, get interventive care in regards to personal health with cost concealment, why spend the money or the time taking care of your personal health when a third-party payer stands ready to pick up the tab?
Reality and Health Care Spending, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The power of socialization and the dominance of biomedicine have kept us from systematically examining a variety of birthing environments and providers as viable alternatives to the expensive and interventive hospital delivery that has become the norm in the U.S.
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The power of socialization and the dominance of biomedicine have kept us from systematically examining a variety of birthing environments and providers as viable alternatives to the expensive and interventive hospital delivery that has become the norm in the U.S.
Melissa Cheyney: Why Home Births Are Worth Considering Melissa Cheyney 2010
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As far as a chemical/surgery interventive health system (rather than a cheaper preventive holistic system), it appeals to Control and Comfort (and competition too).
Ketogenic diet and brain energy | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2007
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Labeling clients as difficult can be inaccurate because of the intersubjective nature of the interventive process.
Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice EDA G. GOLDSTEIN 2001
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Because helping clients obtain certain types of resources may be an indispensable or major part of the interventive process, their lack of availability may stand in the way of achieving treatment goals.
Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice EDA G. GOLDSTEIN 2001
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Labeling clients as difficult can be inaccurate because of the intersubjective nature of the interventive process.
Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice EDA G. GOLDSTEIN 2001
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Because helping clients obtain certain types of resources may be an indispensable or major part of the interventive process, their lack of availability may stand in the way of achieving treatment goals.
Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice EDA G. GOLDSTEIN 2001
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The ideas generated by these theories offer new ways of understanding the needs and problems, struggles and triumphs, of our clients and open exciting and creative approaches to the interventive process.
Object Relations Theory and Self Psychology in Social Work Practice EDA G. GOLDSTEIN 2001
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