Winona has been hospitalized with anorexia nervosa. She refuses to eat enough food to maintain a healthy body weight. Since Winona is now in an institutionalized setting where her behavior can be monitored more closely, the best behavioral therapy technique to use to increase the amount of food that she consumes would be:

a. systematic desensitization
b. aversion therapy
c. negative reinforcement
d. a token economy


D

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