Intervention vs. Treatment — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Intervention and Treatment
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Definitions
Intervention
The act or process of intervening
A nation's military interventions in neighboring countries.
A politician opposed to government intervention in the market economy.
Treatment
The act, manner, or method of handling or dealing with someone or something
"the right to equal treatment in the criminal and juvenile justice system" (Susan C. Ross).
Intervention
The systematic process of assessment and planning employed to remediate or prevent a social, educational, or developmental problem
Early intervention for at-risk toddlers.
Treatment
(Informal) The usual methods of dealing with a given situation
Gave the opposing team the treatment.
Intervention
An act that alters the course of a disease, injury, or condition by initiating a treatment or performing a procedure or surgery.
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Treatment
The use of an agent, procedure, or regimen, such as a drug, surgery, or exercise, in an attempt to cure or mitigate a disease, condition, or injury.
Intervention
A planned, often unannounced meeting with a person with a serious personal problem, such as addiction, in order to persuade the person to seek treatment.
Treatment
The agent, procedure, or regimen so used.
Intervention
The action of intervening; interfering in some course of events.
Treatment
A written sketch outlining the plot, characters, and action for a screenplay but not including certain elements of a finished screenplay, such as camera directions and dialogue.
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Intervention
A legal motion through which a person or entity who has not been named as a party to a case seeks to have the court order that they be made a party.
Treatment
An adaptation of a novel or other literary work that serves as the basis for a screenplay.
Intervention
An orchestrated attempt to convince somebody with an addiction or other psychological problem to seek professional help and/or change their behavior.
Treatment
The process or manner of treating someone or something.
He still has nightmares resulting from the treatment he received from his captors.
Intervention
(medicine) An action taken or procedure performed; an operation.
Treatment
Medical care for an illness or injury.
A treatment or cure is applied after a medical problem has already started.
Cancer survivors who got radiation treatments as children have nearly twice the risk of developing diabetes as adults.
The change is due largely to the increased availability of antiretroviral treatment.
Intervention
The act of intervening; interposition.
Sound is shut out by the intervention of that lax membrane.
Treatment
The use of a substance or process to preserve or give particular properties to something.
Intervention
Any interference that may affect the interests of others; especially, of one or more states with the affairs of another; - the intervention of one state in the affairs of another is typically unwelcome by the state being intervened in, but some cases of mediation between states may be called intervention. Opposed to nonintervention.
Let us decide our quarrels at home, without the intervention, of any foreign power.
Treatment
(countable) A treatise; a formal written description or characterization of a subject.
Intervention
The act by which a third person, to protect his own interest, interposes and becomes a party to a suit pending between other parties.
Treatment
A brief, third-person, present-tense summary of a proposed film.
Intervention
The act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute)
Treatment
(obsolete) entertainment; treat
Intervention
A policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries
Treatment
The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment.
Intervention
(law) a proceeding that permits a person to enter into a lawsuit already in progress; admission of person not an original party to the suit so that person can protect some right or interest that is allegedly affected by the proceedings;
The purpose of intervention is to prevent unnecessary duplication of lawsuits
Treatment
Entertainment; treat.
Accept such treatment as a swain affords.
Treatment
Care by procedures or applications that are intended to relieve illness or injury
Treatment
The management of someone or something;
The handling of prisoners
The treatment of water sewage
The right to equal treatment in the criminal justice system
Treatment
A manner of dealing with something artistically;
His treatment of space borrows from Italian architecture
Treatment
An extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic;
The book contains an excellent discussion of modal logic
His treatment of the race question is badly biased
