Concept information
Preferred term
cognitive therapy
Definition
- Cognitive therapy is based on the idea that beliefs determine feelings and behavior. Albert Ellis, who along with Aaron Beck pioneered the cognitive approach to therapy, favored this quote by the Stoic philosopher Epictetus (first century A.D.): “What disturbs people's minds is not events but their judgments on events.” Cognitive therapists use a variety of techniques and approaches to identify and then modify the cognitive distortions and irrational beliefs that clients bring to counseling. [Source: Encyclopedia of Counseling; Cognitive Therapy]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- acceptance and commitment therapy
- automatic thoughts
- biofeedback
- cognitive restructuring
- coverant control
- covert sensitization conditioning
- eye movement desensitization and reprocessing
- functional analytic psychotherapy
- paradoxical intention
- paradoxical interventions
- relational frame therapy
- self-statement modification
- Socratic method
- stress inoculation training
- therapeutic imagery
- thought stopping
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/cognitive_therapy
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