overprescriptive

adjective

Excessively prescriptive.

Scrabble 28

Meanings

adjectiveoverprescriptive (comparative more overprescriptive, superlative most overprescriptive)

comparative more overprescriptive · superlative most overprescriptive

  1. Excessively prescriptive.

    Since different countries have very varied infrastructures and social/health care systems, guidelines cannot be overprescriptive about delivery of psychosocial assistance as this will vary by the organizational structures in place in each country.

    2010, Elizabeth A. Campbell, “Victims of terrorism” (chapter 3.14), in Jennifer M. Brown, Elizabeth A. Campbell, editors, The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 455

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