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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
    "The psychologist used behaviour therapy to help the patient overcome their phobia";
    - behavior therapy [US], behavior modification [US]

Derived forms: behaviour therapies

Type of: psychotherapy

Encyclopedia: Behaviour therapy