Cognitive Therapy

Cognitive Therapy

Introduction

Cognitive therapy sees the root cause of emotional and behavioral disorders in the existence of maladaptive beliefs. Beliefs are the result of erroneous perception and information processing in the process of personality development. Cognitive therapy seeks to directly affect the client's cognitions (thoughts, attitudes, expectations). Therapy is looking for distortions in thinking and in teaching alternative, more realistic perception of their way of life. Cognitive therapy focuses on the goal, and focus on the issue. The main attention is paid to it now. In the process of structured sessions, therapists, in contrast to psychoanalysts, work with the conscious ...