Definition of behavior therapy Behavior therapy
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What does behavior therapy mean?
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| behavior therapy - psychotherapy that seeks to extinguish or inhibit abnormal or maladaptive behavior by reinforcing desired behavior and extinguishing undesired behavior | ||
| behavior modification | ||
| psychotherapy the treatment of mental or emotional problems by psychological means | ||
| assertiveness training a method of psychotherapy that reinforces you for stating negative and positive feelings directly | ||
| aversion therapy any technique of behavior modification that uses unpleasant stimuli in a controlled fashion to alter behavior in a therapeutic way; primarily used for alcoholism or drug abuse (but with little success) | ||
| desensitisation procedure, desensitisation technique, desensitization procedure, desensitization technique, systematic desensitisation, systematic desensitization a technique used in behavior therapy to treat phobias and other behavior problems involving anxiety; client is exposed to the threatening situation under relaxed conditions until the anxiety reaction is extinguished | ||
| flooding, implosion therapy a technique used in behavior therapy; client is flooded with experiences of a particular kind until becoming either averse to them or numbed to them | ||
| reciprocal-inhibition therapy, reciprocal inhibition a method of behavior therapy based on the inhibition of one response by the occurrence of another response that is mutually incompatible with it; a relaxation response might be conditioned to a stimulus that previously evoked anxiety | ||
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