1. psychotherapy that seeks to extinguish or inhibit abnormal or maladaptive behavior by reinforcing desired behavior and extinguishing undesired behavior; [syn: behavior therapy, behavior modification]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
behavior modification
n 1: psychotherapy that seeks to extinguish or inhibit abnormal
or maladaptive behavior by reinforcing desired behavior and
extinguishing undesired behavior [syn: behavior therapy,
behavior modification]