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Mental health professionals can use a number of tools to support a client in overcoming fear. Counterconditioning and desensitization are powerful ways to change behavior. What are counterconditioning and desensitization?

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Counterconditioning is a type of therapy based on the principles of classical conditioning that attempts to replace a negative or unpleasant emotional response to a stimulus with more pleasant adaptive responses. It attempts to stop a ...

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