COGNITIVE APPROACH TO COUNSELING

Cognitive therapy (CT) is a type of psychotherapy developed by an American psychiatrist
Aaron T. Beck. CT is one of the therapeutic approaches within the larger group of cognitive-behavioral therapies (CBT) and was first expounded by Beck in the 1960s. In the 1950s
scientific interest returned to attention, memory, images, language processing, thinking, and consciousness. The “failure” of Behaviorism heralded a new period in the investigation of cognition, known as the Cognitive Revolution. This was characterized by a
revival of already existing theories and the rise of new ideas such as various
communication theories.