Sentence:  Then , too , the utmost clinical flexibility is necessary in judiciously combining carefully timed family-oriented home visits , single and group office interviews , and appropriate telephone follow-up calls , if the worker is to be genuinely accessible and if the predicted unhealthy outcome is to be actually <WSD>averted</WSD> in accordance with the principles of preventive intervention . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  prevent the occurrence of; prevent from happening