0 a method of treating habits or types of behaviour that are not wanted or not acceptable, by causing the patient to connect them with bad feelings: --
Despite what many people think, aversion therapy is no longer used by professional psychologists in this country.
Several people have criticized the level of training required to perform behavior modification procedures, especially those that are restrictive or use aversives, aversion therapy, or punishment protocols.
Aversion therapy is a type of behavior therapy designed to make patients give up an undesirable habit by causing them to associate it with an unpleasant effect.
Many of the behaviorism programs use covert sensitization and/or odor aversion: both are forms of aversion therapy, which have had ethical challenges.
Aversion therapy took place at a number of research universities during the 1970s.
Aversion therapy and punishment is a technique in which an aversive (painful or unpleasant) stimulus is used to decrease unwanted behaviors from occurring.
Effeminate boys were forced to undergo aversion therapy.
The use of aversion therapy remains controversial, and is an ethical issue related to the professional practice of behavior analysis.
At the age of 12, his father gave him a cigar to smoke as aversion therapy.
