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S: APA – https://www.apa.org/ptsd-guideline/patients-and-families/medication-or-therapy (last access: 10 May 2025); IllinRecovCent – https://illinoisrecoverycenter.com/therapy-vs-treatment/ (last access: 10 May 2025).

N: 1. 1846, «medical treatment of disease,» from Modern Latin therapia, from Greek therapeia «curing, healing, service done to the sick; a waiting on, service,» from therapeuein «to cure, treat medically,» literally «attend, do service, take care of» (see therapeutic).

2. The treatment of physical or mental illnesses.
Therapeutic treatment especially of bodily, mental, or behavioral disorder

3. Non-Surgical Treatment: therapy.

  • The treatment of a disease or pathological condition.

4. Penal Law; Health Law; Non-Surgical Treatment: treatment.

  • A broad term covering all the steps taken to effect a cure of an injury or disease; including examination and diagnosis as well as application of remedies.
  • Treatment for the purpose of the Criminal Code is a process oriented towards the therapeutic alteration of individual health conditions, resulting from disease, illness, disability or disorder.

5. Collocations:

  • Adj.: alternative, complementary; behaviour, speech; aversion, occupational, regression, relaxation, shock, etc.; family, group.
  • Quant.: course.
  • Verb + therapy: need, require; be given, have, receive, undergo; be in, go into.
  • Therapy + noun: group, session.
  • Phrases: a form of therapy the use of hypnosis as a form of therapy.

S: 1. Etymonline – http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=therapy (last access: 29 April 2016). 2. MW – http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/therapy (last access: 29 April 2016). 3 & 4. TERMIUM PLUS – https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=therapy&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs, https://www.btb.termiumplus.gc.ca/tpv2alpha/alpha-eng.html?lang=eng&i=1&srchtxt=treatment&index=alt&codom2nd_wet=1#resultrecs (last access: 10 May 2025). 5. OD – http://oxforddictionary.so8848.com/search?word=therapy (last access: 29 April 2016).

SYN: therapeutics, treatment, therapeutic measure. (depending on context)

S: GDT – http://www.granddictionnaire.com/ficheOqlf.aspx?Id_Fiche=8382709 (last access: 29 April 2016)

CR: acatalasemia, diagnosis, disease, infusion, placebo, placebo effect, prognosis, sick person, stem cell transplant.