Remotivation

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A form of therapy attempting to re-establish an interest in the world in institutionalized patients. countable, uncountable

    "Neither reality orientation nor remotivation techniques helped these very old disoriented residents face present reality. Nor could they relate to the objects that the therapist used to stimulate awareness of present time in a remotivation group."

Example

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"Neither reality orientation nor remotivation techniques helped these very old disoriented residents face present reality. Nor could they relate to the objects that the therapist used to stimulate awareness of present time in a remotivation group."

Etymology

From re- + motivation.

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