psychotherapeutic

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psychotherapeutic — 形容詞

  • psychotherapeuticpositive
  • more psychotherapeuticcomparative
  • most psychotherapeuticsuperlative

1. relating to a method of treating mental health conditions through conversations

1.形容詞C1
釋義

心理治療的

透過談話治療心理問題的

relating to a method of treating mental health conditions through conversations with a trained professional, rather than using medicine or surgery

例句

After losing his job, Lin attended weekly psychotherapeutic sessions at the clinic.

失業後，Lin 每週都到診所參加心理治療課程。

collocation: psychotherapeutic sessions

Mei found that the psychotherapeutic approach helped her understand the cause of her anxiety.

Mei 發現心理治療的方法幫助她了解自己焦慮的原因。

同義詞
  • therapeutic

    broader term covering any healing treatment, not limited to talk-based methods

  • psychiatric

    relates to medical doctors (psychiatrists) who can also prescribe drugs; psychotherapeutic is narrower, about talk therapy only

  • counselling

    used as a noun more often than as an adjective; counselling is a type of psychotherapeutic practice

反義詞
  • pharmacological

    relating to drug-based treatment, which is the opposite approach to psychotherapeutic methods

文法句型

psychotherapeutic + noun

用法筆記

Typically used before nouns such as treatment, approach, session, programme, or technique. The shorter noun form psychotherapy is far more common in everyday spoken English.

常見錯誤

❗️ 'The doctor gave her psychotherapeutic drugs.' ✅ 'The doctor recommended psychotherapeutic sessions to help her talk through her problems.' — psychotherapeutic refers to conversation-based treatment, not medication, so it does not combine with drugs or medicine.