behavior therapy

Questions about behavior therapy

What does behavior therapy mean?

behavior therapy means "psychotherapy that seeks to extinguish or inhibit abnormal or maladaptive behavior by reinforcing desired behavior and extinguishing undesired behavior".

What is another word for behavior therapy?

Close synonyms include behavior modification. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is behavior therapy a common word?

behavior therapy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.