intervention
The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.
Other meanings
An orchestrated attempt to convince somebody with an addiction or other psychological problem to seek professional help and/or change their behavior.
An action taken or procedure performed; an operation.
Related words
- nonintervention
- counterintervention
- immunointervention
- interventionable
- non-intervention
- postvention
- teleintervention
- reintervention
- postintervention
- preintervention
- prointervention
- neurointervention
Word history
From Latin "interventiō".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “intervention” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.