therapeutic environment

collocation in English

meaningsoftherapeuticandenvironment

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therapeutic
adjective
uk
/ˌθer.əˈpjuː.tɪk/us
/ˌθer.əˈpjuː.t̬ɪk/
relating to the curing of a disease or ...
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environment
noun
uk
/ɪnˈvaɪ.rən.mənt/us
/ɪnˈvaɪ.rən.mənt/
the air, water, and land in or on which people, animals, and ...
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(Definition oftherapeuticandenvironmentfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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However, in order to adapt such an approach to atherapeuticenvironment, an appropriate delivery system is necessary.
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This building aims to nurture and promote wellbeing in its client community, by providing a beneficialtherapeuticenvironment, in which the quality of the spaces supports the quality of care.
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They are grim, and do not offer atherapeuticenvironment.
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The appropriate statutory authorities have a responsibility to ensure that mentally ill patients are cared for in the community in a safe andtherapeuticenvironment.
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The side effect of ensuring such security could conceivably be immensely detrimental to thetherapeuticenvironmentthat the health authority is attempting to provide.
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A safe, separate andtherapeuticenvironmentis what people need to have any chance of recovering from catastrophic mental breakdown.
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The last 20 years have seen a move to a much more opentherapeuticenvironmentin psychiatric hospitals.
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Clearly, in mental health more than any other area, thetherapeuticenvironmentis staff-rich.
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Psychiatrists do not want to put their patients, especially female patients, into some units as it is not atherapeuticenvironmentfor them to recover in.
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It provides guidance on general functional and design requirements and stresses the need for the provision of a safe andtherapeuticenvironmentthat helps patients feel at ease.
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The grounds are landscaped to help create atherapeuticenvironment.
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Deprived of hertherapeuticenvironment, she hangs herself.
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But psychiatrists did not immediately abandon their belief in thetherapeuticenvironment; instead, they argued for a differenttherapeuticenvironment.
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The aim of therapeutic communities was a more democratic, user-led form oftherapeuticenvironment, avoiding the authoritarian and demeaning practices of many psychiatric establishments of the time.
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It is a family-like,therapeuticenvironmentwhere children receive the structure, acceptance, guidance and resources they need in order to thrive and grow up to lead positive and productive lives.
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In other words, there should be separate therapeutic environments for people with very different types of mental disorder.
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The scandals must end and dangerous patients must be held in therapeutic environments where security is the first priority.
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First, does he accept in principle that there should be separate therapeutic environments for the treatment of people with very different types of mental illness in in-patient units?
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