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4 dictionary results for: Behavior therapy
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
behavior therapy
–noun Psychology.
| a form of therapy emphasizing the correction of a person's undesirable behavior through Pavlovian conditioning, aversive therapy, or similar learning techniques. |
[Origin: 1955–60
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
| behavior therapy
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. behavior therapist n. |
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| behavior therapy | |
noun | |
| psychotherapy that seeks to extinguish or inhibit abnormal or maladaptive behavior by reinforcing desired behavior and extinguishing undesired behavior |
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behavior therapist n.
behavior therapy 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 behavior modification.
behavior therapist n.
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