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A 10 page paper. The essay begins by explaining cognitive therapy, its foundations and major premises. The writer comments on the relationship between cognitive therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy. The focus turns to using both approaches with substance abuse. The writer then discusses the use of cognitive therapy with trauma victims. Bibliography lists 11 sources.
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theoretical perspective that focuses on thought, memory and perception. The major premise underlying the cognitive school is that humans constantly take in information from their environment and they do
so through their senses (Epsychlopedia, 2000). They then process all of that information through different mental processes, such as organizing the information, storing new information, and manipulating it with prior
information to gain a greater or more complete understanding of what the information means to them (Epsychlopedia, 2000). The cognitive movement began in the mid-1990s. One author suggested that
"the advent of the computer and the way of thinking associated with it led to a new approach or orientation to psychology called the cognitive movement" (Boeree, 2000). At the
time, many hoped the cognitive approach would be a unifying theory of the many different therapeutic theories available (Boeree, 2000). The foundations for or roots of this school of
thought go far beyond the advent of advanced information technology. The roots are found in Gestalt theory, humanism and in behaviorism (Boeree, 2000). In fact, theorists who adhere to cognitive
theory come from many different disciplines including linguistics, social learning theory, neuroscience, philosophy and engineering (Boeree, 2000). Most recently, theorists in the cognitive approach have emerged from computer science,
specifically the division of artificial intelligence (Boeree, 2000). Some of the major players are Tolman, Piaget, Bandura, Chomsky, Vygotsky, Turing and Kelly (Boeree, 2000). Cognitivists believe that people are who
and what they are because of the way they think and process all the information they receive (Wilderdom, 2003). People develop habitual patterns of thinking just as they develop habitual
habits of behaving (Wilderdom, 2003). This is what forms a persons personality. Said another way, a persons personality is characterized by what they think, how they process information and how
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