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remotivation

remotivation noun: a form of therapy attempting to re-establish an interest in the world in institutionalized patients.

Noun

remotivation (countable and uncountable, plural remotivations)

  1. A form of therapy attempting to re-establish an interest in the world in institutionalized patients.
    • 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.1991, Paul K. H. Kim, Serving the Elderly: Skills for Practice, page 92

Forms of remotivation

pluralremotivations

Origin of remotivation

From re- + motivation.

Questions about remotivation

What does remotivation mean?
Remotivation means a form of therapy attempting to re-establish an interest in the world in institutionalized patients.
What part of speech is remotivation?
Remotivation is a noun.
What is the plural of remotivation?
The plural of remotivation is remotivations.

Words near remotivation in the dictionary

  1. remotions
  2. remotivate
  3. remotivated
  4. remotivates
  5. remotivating
  6. remotivation
  7. remotivations
  8. remotor
  9. remotored
  10. remotoring
  11. remotorings

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