Alphabetic List of Interventions, Treatments and Therapies

PROMPT is an acronym for Prompts for Restructuring Oral Muscular Phonetic Targets, a programme which is designed to help individuals with speech disorders gain voluntary control of their motor-speech systems.

Prompting is verbal, gestural, or physical assistance given to learners to assist them in acquiring or engaging in a targeted behaviour or skill.

Prompting devices are electronic devices which use a signal to prompt an individual to do something.

Another term for PROMPT, a programme which is used to help individuals with speech disorders gain voluntary control of their motor-speech systems.

Propranolol is a type of drug called β-adrenergic antagonists (beta blockers).

Prostap is a brand name of leuprolide, a drug which turns off the production of testosterone.

Prozac is a brand name for fluoxetine, a type of SSRI antidepressant, used to treat a variety of conditions including anxiety and depression.

PSE is an acronym for problem-solving education, a brief, cognitive intervention delivered in six 30-minute individualized sessions

Psychiatry is the branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mental health problems.

Psycho-educational interventions are a very large group of interventions which use behavioural and other teaching techniques to change behaviours.

Psychoactive is a rerm used to describe substances, such as drugs, which affect the mind or mental processes.

Psychoanalysis is a type of psychological intervention used to help people deal with emotional and behavioural problems.

Psychoeducation is the provision of information about conditions such as autism.

Psychology is the scientific study of the human mind and behaviour: how we think, feel, act and interact, individually and in groups.

Psychomotor patterning is another term for patterning therapies, a range of interventions based on a series of movement patterns which are designed to facilitate neurological feedback to the brain.

Psychopharmacology is the branch of medicine that deals with the study of the actions, effects, and development of psychoactive drugs.

Psychotherapy is a type of psychological intervention used to treat emotional problems and mental health conditions.

Psychotropic is another term for psychoactive, a term used to describe substances, such as drugs, which affect the mind or mental processes.

The purine-free diet requires you to avoid foodstuffs which contain high levels of purine, such as some fish, some meats and some beverages.

Pyridoxine is another name for vitamin B-6, a water-soluble vitamin found in foodstuffs such as beans, nuts and cereals.