A method or strategy developed in opposition to or as an alternative to another approach.
Counter- + approach (a method or way of dealing with something). This term emerged in academic and professional contexts to describe alternative methodologies.
Some therapists use Cognitive Behavioral Therapy while others take a counterapproach with Psychodynamic therapy—different roads to helping people, sometimes in direct opposition to each other.
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