behavior modification
Psychoanalists focus on the feelings and thoughts of a patient when trying to cure him. Behavior therapists, on the other hand, try to change the way their patients behave by concentrating on the behavior itself. For example, to treat a patient with a fear for heights, a behavior therapist will expose the patient to greater and greater heights. This sort of approach is caled behavior modification.Another method of behavior modification is the operant conditioning (you can also read information about this in the site itself). In this method patients are given a reward or punishment whenever they want to behave in a certain way.
