behavior therapy

Questions about behavior therapy

What is another word for behavior therapy?

It depends which behavior therapy you mean. In the sense “psychotherapy that seeks to extinguish or inhibit abnormal or maladaptive behavior by reinforcing desired behavior and extinguishing undesired behavior”, the synonyms are behavior modification. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of behavior therapy?

WordNet records no antonym for behavior therapy. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for behavior therapy come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of behavior therapy

• Full entry for behavior therapyAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for behavior therapyWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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