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Noun: behavior modification
Usage: US (elsewhere: behaviour therapy)
  1. Psychotherapy that seeks to extinguish or inhibit abnormal or maladaptive behavior by reinforcing desired behavior and extinguishing undesired behavior
    "The psychologist used behavior modification to help the patient overcome their phobia";
    - behavior therapy [US], behaviour therapy [Brit, Cdn]

Derived forms: behavior modifications

Type of: psychotherapy

Encyclopedia: Behavior modification