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Noun: behaviour therapy
Usage: Brit, Cdn (US: behavior therapy)
  1. Psychotherapy that seeks to extinguish or inhibit abnormal or maladaptive behaviour by reinforcing desired behaviour and extinguishing undesired behaviour
    - behavior therapy [US], behavior modification [US]

Derived forms: behaviour therapies

Type of: psychotherapy

Encyclopedia: Behaviour therapy

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