behavior modification

Noun behavior modification has 1 sense

• behavior modification(n = noun.act) behavior therapy - psychotherapy that seeks to extinguish or inhibit abnormal or maladaptive behavior by reinforcing desired behavior and extinguishing undesired behavior;
is a kind of psychotherapy
has particulars: assertiveness training, aversion therapy, desensitisation procedure, desensitisation technique, desensitization procedure, desensitization technique, systematic desensitisation, systematic desensitization, flooding, implosion therapy, reciprocal-inhibition therapy, reciprocal inhibition, token economy