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Descriptor English: Desensitization, Psychologic
Descriptor Spanish: Desensibilización Psicológica
Descriptor desensibilización psicológica
Scope note: Técnica de terapia conductista en la que se utiliza la relajación muscular profunda para inhibir los efectos de estímulos graduados evocadores de ansiedad.
Descriptor Portuguese: Dessensibilização Psicológica
Descriptor French: Désensibilisation psychologique
Entry term(s): Desensitization (Psychology)
Desensitization, Psychological
Desensitizations (Psychology)
Psychologic Desensitization
Psychological Desensitization
Tree number(s): F04.754.137.506
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D003887
Scope note: A behavior therapy technique in which deep muscle relaxation is used to inhibit the effects of graded anxiety-evoking stimuli.
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
ED education
ES ethics
HI history
IS instrumentation
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
MT methods
OG organization & administration
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Public MeSH Note: 95; was DESENSITIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY) 1975-94 (see under BEHAVIOR THERAPY 1975-90)
Online Note: use DESENSITIZATION, PSYCHOLOGIC to search DESENSITIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY) 1975-94; use BEHAVIOR THERAPY 1969-74
History Note: 95; was DESENSITIZATION (PSYCHOLOGY) 1975-94 (see under BEHAVIOR THERAPY 1975-90)
Entry Version: DESENSITIZATION PSYCHOL
DeCS ID: 3907
Unique ID: D003887
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Date Established: 1991/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 1995/05/31
Desensitization, Psychologic - Preferred
Concept UI M0006069
Scope note A behavior therapy technique in which deep muscle relaxation is used to inhibit the effects of graded anxiety-evoking stimuli.
Preferred term Desensitization, Psychologic
Entry term(s) Desensitization (Psychology)
Desensitization, Psychological
Desensitizations (Psychology)
Psychologic Desensitization
Psychological Desensitization



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