behavior modification
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1. psychotherapy that seeks to extinguish or inhibit abnormal or maladaptive behavior by reinforcing desired behavior and extinguishing undesired behavior (noun.act)
hypernym | : | psychotherapy, |
definition | : | the treatment of mental or emotional problems by psychological means (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | assertiveness training, |
definition | : | a method of psychotherapy that reinforces you for stating negative and positive feelings directly (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | aversion therapy, |
definition | : | 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) (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | flooding, implosion therapy, |
definition | : | 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 (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | reciprocal inhibition, reciprocal-inhibition therapy, |
definition | : | 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 (noun.act) |
hyponym | : | token economy, |
definition | : | a form of behavior therapy that has been used in some mental institutions; patients are rewarded with tokens for appropriate behavior and the tokens may be cashed in for valued rewards (noun.act) |
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