exposure therapy

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   a form of behavior therapy in which a survivor confronts feelings or phobias or anxieties about a traumatic event and relives it in the therapy situation

   Broaderdesensitization technique

Questions about exposure therapy

What does exposure therapy mean?

exposure therapy means "a form of behavior therapy in which a survivor confronts feelings or phobias or anxieties about a traumatic event and relives it in the therapy situation".

Is exposure therapy a common word?

exposure 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.