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Psychotherapy is a way to engage a client in a variety of conversations in order to better understand how to help that person change their current behavior to better their life and mental state. Cognitive therapy is still a relatively new field, becoming known in the 1960s. Cognitive behavioral therapy tends to be a faster-paced type of therapy, many patients attending a session a week for less than an hour and, on average, less than a year. Many of the focus in CBT is based around changing one's thoughts. When it comes to specific phobias, one can use this particular type of therapy to focus on changing current behaviors and thought processes that one has in order to try to come up with a new way of thinking, or acting, in order to help make their life as productive as can be. Exposure theory involves one actively engaging in different instances where one is facing their phobia; whether it be through images, discussions, or seeing it face-to-face. This can help one to slowly get rid of that phobia, or decrease the amount of fear one experiences when they are dealing with their phobia. By allowing one to use different types of therapy in order to alter their thinking and behavior, it can help eliminate the feelings of anxiety that are generated by their phobia. Cognitive drill theory (CDT) is another type of therapy that focuses on exposure to certain words (usually relating explicitly to ones fear) repeatedly in order to help a patient try to better manage their fear. It is often used to treat people with OCD, as well as those with specific phobias. Research has found that many medication is not helpful in order to resolve those feelings in terms of a specific phobia, therapy can be a useful alternative.

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