Term: 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
Candidate hypernym: desensitization technique: 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 → 1
Candidate hypernym: hollow: a cavity or space in something → 0
Candidate hypernym: wood horsetail: Eurasia except southern Russia; northern North America → 0
Candidate hypernym: tishri: the first month of the civil year; the seventh month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in September and October) → 0
Candidate hypernym: federalist: an advocate of federalism → 0
Candidate hypernym: island: a land mass (smaller than a continent) that is surrounded by water → 0
Candidate hypernym: bush pea: any of various plants of the genus Thermopsis having trifoliate leaves and yellow or purple racemose flowers → 0
Candidate hypernym: goldfish: small golden or orange-red freshwater fishes of Eurasia used as pond or aquarium fishes → 0
Candidate hypernym: epilating wax: a mixture of resins and waxes to remove cosmetically undesirable hair; mixture is applied hot to the surface and after cooling is pulled away taking the hairs with it → 0
Candidate hypernym: thwart: a crosspiece spreading the gunnels of a boat; used as a seat in a rowboat → 0
Candidate hypernym: short-tailed shrew: North American shrew with tail less than half its body length → 0