Chapter 15: Therapies All therapies share the same benefits:       Provide interactions with empathetic person       Give explanations for problems       Teach coping strategies       Give feeling of hope and self-control Behavior therapies: faulty learning leads to mental disorders.    Phobias may be classically conditioned.         Systematic desensitization: in a relaxed state, exposure to increasingly feared stimulus.         Flooding: exposure to feared stimulus until extinction.         These techniques can also be used to treat Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders (when obsessive thoughts create great anxiety, which is reduced by performing specific rituals, which become compulsive through operant conditioning).         Aversion therapy: link undesired behavior with unpleasant event.     Operant conditioning can also be a form of therapy:         Token economies: reward desired behaviors         Time-outs: ignore undesired behaviors.         Satiation: force people to engage in maladaptive behaviors until they are sick. Cognitive therapies: faulty thoughts lead to mental disorders.     Make people aware of their irrational beliefs and teach them coping skills.     Give feeling of empowerment.     Lead to long-term benefits because they get at the cause of the problem, whereas drug therapies may just mask symptoms.