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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A form of psychotherapy that uses basic learning techniques to modify maladaptive behavior patterns by substituting new responses to given stimuli for undesirable ones. Also called behavioral therapy, behavior modification.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. psychotherapy that seeks to extinguish or inhibit abnormal or maladaptive behavior by reinforcing desired behavior and extinguishing undesired behavior

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  1. psychotherapy

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  1. flooding
  2. desensitization procedure
  1. desensitisation technique
  2. reciprocal-inhibition therapy
  1. desensitization technique
  2. aversion therapy
  1. assertiveness training
  2. desensitisation procedure
  1. systematic desensitisation
  2. implosion therapy
  1. reciprocal inhibition
  2. token economy
  1. systematic desensitization

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  1. systematic desensitisation
  2. systematic desensitization
  3. token economy
  1. desensitisation procedure
  2. desensitisation technique
  3. desensitization procedure
  1. desensitization technique
  2. aversion therapy
  3. reciprocal inhibition
  1. reciprocal-inhibition therapy
  2. flooding
  3. implosion therapy
  1. exposure therapy
  2. behavior therapy
  3. behavior modification
  1. behavioral therapy
  2. behavioral medicine
  3. imagery
  1. psychoanalysis

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