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Noun: behavior therapy
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 therapy to help the patient overcome their phobia";
    - behavior modification [US], behaviour therapy [Brit, Cdn]

Derived forms: behavior therapies

Type of: psychotherapy

Encyclopedia: Behavior therapy