English noun: behavior therapy | |||
1. | behavior therapy (act) psychotherapy that seeks to extinguish or inhibit abnormal or maladaptive behavior by reinforcing desired behavior and extinguishing undesired behavior | ||
Synonyms | behavior modification | ||
Broader (hypernym) | psychotherapy | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | assertiveness training, aversion therapy, desensitisation procedure, desensitisation technique, desensitization procedure, desensitization technique, flooding, implosion therapy, reciprocal inhibition, reciprocal-inhibition therapy, systematic desensitisation, systematic desensitization, token economy | ||