Alphabetic List of Interventions, Treatments and Therapies

Positive cognitions is another term for positive thinking, which means approaching life's challenges with a positive outlook.

Positive handling is a term used to describe the use of controlled physical intervention for the management of extremely challenging behaviour.

Positive psychology practice focuses on how to help human beings prosper and lead healthy, happy lives.

Positive thinking means approaching life's challenges with a positive outlook.

Post-secondary education (also known as further and higher education) refers to any form of education that takes place after secondary school.

Power card is a card which an individual carries to remind him or her how to deal with a difficult situation.

The Pre-school Autism Communication Trial is a programme developed by the University of Manchester in the UK which is designed to enhance parent-child communication in autism and the social and language development of the child.

Prebiotics are natural substances in some foods that are supposed to encourage the growth of healthy bacteria in the gut.

Prednisone is in a class of medications called corticosteroids, a type of steroid.

Pregnenolone is a naturally occurring steroid directly metabolized from cholesterol and the precursor of of virtually all neurosteroids.

The Preschoolers with Autism programme is broadly based on multiple early intervention and cognitive behavioural techniques and has several purposes.

The prescriptive teaching model is another term for discrete trial training, a highly-structured training technique that involves a trainer instructing an individual with autism using a series of learning opportunities or 'trials'.

Pressure vests are vests or or jackets which can be inflated in order to exert pressure on the person wearing them.

Prevent-teach-reinforce is a model of individualised positive behavioural support.

The Princeton Child Development Institute Early Intervention Program is a form of early intensive behavioural intervention run by the Princeton Child Development Institute in the US.

Prism lenses are lenses which refract light, which has the effect of breaking it up into different colours or changing an individual's field of vision.

Probiotics are live microorganisms thought to be beneficial to the host organism.

Problem Solving Skills: 101 is a commercial programme designed to help students adopt problem-solving strategies.

Problem-solving skills training is an intervention designed to teach the skills involved in effective problem-solving, including skills that address practical problems faced by caregivers.

Progesterone is a hormone involved in women's menstrual cycles and in reproduction.