psychosocial support

psychosocial support

A general term for any non-therapeutic intervention that helps a person cope with stressors in the home or at work.
One study concluded that increased psychosocial support by nurses or social workers for women at high risk of delivering low-birth-weight infants (e.g., with low income and education, who were short (≤1.5 m), underweight (≤ 50 kg), suffered previous infant or foetal death from delivering low-birth-weight infants) neither improved maternal health nor reduced the incidence of such births.

psychosocial support

A nontherapeutic intervention that helps a person cope with stressors at home or at work. See Companionship, Most significant other.