1. psychotherapy that focuses on acute critical situations (depressive episodes or attempted suicides or drug overdoses) with the aim of restoring the person to the level of functioning before the crisis;
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
crisis intervention
n 1: psychotherapy that focuses on acute critical situations
(depressive episodes or attempted suicides or drug
overdoses) with the aim of restoring the person to the
level of functioning before the crisis