Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun exposure_therapy

1 sense of exposure therapy

Sense 1
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)
       => desensitization technique, desensitisation technique, desensitization procedure, desensitisation procedure, systematic desensitization, systematic desensitisation -- (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)