therapeutic

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• find: On several occasions interviewees told me that they found the interviews therapeutic ( one even used the word cathartic ).

Modifies a noun

• intervention: Various therapeutic interventions were adopted to deal with each.
• radiographer: There is an increasing demand for therapeutic radiographers in the health service.
• modality: Each therapeutic modality should be evaluated according to its own merits.
• massage: Therapeutic massage can be helpful in reducing pain or tiredness in the feet.
• radiography: The site provides details of the BSc courses in diagnostic or therapeutic radiography.
• antibody: Our investigations in this area range from basic research in microbiology, virology and immunology to the development of vaccines and therapeutic antibodies.

Modifying Another Word

• potentially: It has the advantage of also being a potentially therapeutic procedure.
• truly: This is truly therapeutic because it brings about social atom repair.
• highly: In Perriam's world, fantasy is highly therapeutic.
• very: It was very therapeutic, actually, just having people pampering me.
• not: But one thing must be clear to all and that is that it is not a therapeutic interaction and the relationship is not therapeutic.
• really: And for me teaching and dancing is really therapeutic.

Infinitive complement

• write: Was it difficult or therapeutic to write about an illness that has affected you so closely?

Used with adjective complement

• allow: The first British government consultation on cloning issues recommended that the licensing authority allow therapeutic cloning go ahead but not to allow reproductive cloning.
• support: Some resources link to organizations who support therapeutic cloning, believing that it will lead to improvements in treatments and possible cures.
• surround: The ethical issues surrounding therapeutic cloning are similar in some ways to the abortion debate; that is when does personhood start?
• provide: These should provide therapeutic and ' normalizing ' care required to enable children to reach their potential and become fully participating members of society.

Preposition: in

• sense: This is not therapy as such, tho it may well be therapeutic in the deepest sense.