extratherapeutic

English

Alternative forms

• extra-therapeutic

Etymology

From extra- +‎ therapeutic.

Adjective

extratherapeutic (not comparable)

1. Occurring outside of therapy.
   • 2013 November 13, Robert J. DeRubeis, Lois A. Gelfand, Ramaris E. German, Jay C. Fournier, and Nicholas R. Forand, “Understanding processes of change: How some patients reveal more than others – and some groups of therapists less – about what matters in psychotherapy”, in Psychotherapy Research, volume 24, number 3, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, →PMID, page 421, column 1:

     We will not include random extratherapeutic events as, by definition, these random events are not attributable to the therapist, his or her therapeutic methods, or the patient; these would present as random error or unexplained variance in any model.