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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
    - behavior modification [US], behaviour therapy [Brit, Cdn]

Derived forms: behavior therapies

Type of: psychotherapy

Encyclopedia: Behavior therapy