(behavioral therapy) A technique used to change subjects' behavior, for example, psychotherapy, lifestyle counseling or hypnosis.

Interventions to reinforce or promote desirable behaviors or alter undesirable behaviors

The application of modern theories of learning and conditioning in the treatment of behavior disorders.

Therapeutic approach in which the focus is on the patient's observable behavior, rather than on conflicts and unconscious processes presumed to underlie his maladaptive behavior; accomplished through systematic manipulation of the environmental and behavioral variables related to the specific behavior to be modified; operant conditioning, systematic desensitization, token economy, aversive control, flooding, and implosion are examples of techniques that may be used in behavior therapy.

(behavior modification) A technique used to help people change the way they react to certain triggers in the environment that cause a negative reaction. In cancer treatment, behavior modification may be used to help patients who have become nauseous during previous cancer treatments cope with nausea they feel when they enter the therapy room to begin a new round of treatment.

(behavior modification) Activities that change habits, conduct, or patterns of action.

(behavior modification) Promotion of a behavior change

(behavioral intervention) The use of operant conditioning, including rewards and punishments, in helping a person create an atmosphere where he or she does not contribute to painful stimuli.

Behaviour therapy, the application of experimentally derived principles of learning to the treatment of psychological disorders. The concept derives primarily from work of the Russian psychologist Ivan Pavlov, who published extensively in the 1920s and 1930s on the application of conditioning...