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DESENSITISATION TECHNIQUE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does desensitisation technique mean?
• DESENSITISATION TECHNIQUE (noun)
The noun DESENSITISATION TECHNIQUE has 1 sense:
1. a technique used in behavior therapy to treat phobias and other behavior problems involving anxiety; client is exposed to the threatening situation under relaxed conditions until the anxiety reaction is extinguished
Familiarity information: DESENSITISATION TECHNIQUE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• DESENSITISATION TECHNIQUE (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A technique used in behavior therapy to treat phobias and other behavior problems involving anxiety; client is exposed to the threatening situation under relaxed conditions until the anxiety reaction is extinguished
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
desensitisation procedure; desensitisation technique; desensitization procedure; desensitization technique; systematic desensitisation; systematic desensitization
Hypernyms ("desensitisation technique" is a kind of...):
behavior modification; behavior therapy (psychotherapy that seeks to extinguish or inhibit abnormal or maladaptive behavior by reinforcing desired behavior and extinguishing undesired behavior)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "desensitisation technique"):
exposure therapy (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)
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