behavior therapy 1
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Princeton WordNet [ver.3.1]
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EnglishDefinition
psychotherapy that seeks to extinguish or inhibit abnormal or maladaptive behavior by reinforcing desired behavior and extinguishing undesired behavior
Hypernym
psychotherapy 2
noun
the treatment of mental or emotional problems by psychological means
EnglishHyponym
a method of psychotherapy that reinforces you for stating negative and positive feelings directly
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)
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
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
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
