reinforcement therapy

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noun Psychology.

a behavior modification technique in which appropriate behavior is strengthened through systematic reinforcement.

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How to use reinforcement therapy in a sentence

Though tissues are present and tears are not uncommon, the Dinner Parties are distinctly not grief counseling or group therapy.
Everyone at This Dinner Party Has Lost Someone|Samantha Levine|January 6, 2015|DAILY BEAST
I return home after several days in the hospital and start thrice weekly physical therapy.
You’re Never ‘Cured’ of an Eating Disorder|Carrie Arnold|December 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The campaign included a push for the World Health Organization to condemn gay-conversion therapy.
China’s Electroshock Gay-Conversion Case|Nina Strochlic|December 19, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Collaborating with him on a film was the best kind of therapy I could have asked for.
Blogger Shares and Shames Cancer in ‘Lily’|Amy Grantham|December 9, 2014|DAILY BEAST

And for those seeking a quick fix: Studies show that light therapy can spur a mood lift in just several days.
9 Ways to Cope With Seasonal Affective Disorder|DailyBurn|December 5, 2014|DAILY BEAST
This reinforcement, so much sooner than expected, greatly elated Major Powell.
The Courier of the Ozarks|Byron A. Dunn
In serum therapy antitoxins are artificially excited into being in the blood of beasts.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine|Austin Malley
The War Office seem rather pleased than otherwise that this reinforcement has fallen through.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2|Ian Hamilton
Glover and the muleteers, steadied by this opportune reinforcement, reloaded and resumed their file-firing.
Overland|John William De Forest
The bourgeois looked in stupefaction at this reinforcement that was about to join the attacking party.
Chicot the Jester|Alexandre Dumas, Pere