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Cognitive Therapy

Cognitive therapy is a structured, evidence-based form of psychotherapy that aims to relieve psychological distress by identifying and modifying maladaptive thoughts, beliefs, and information-processing biases. Grounded in the cognitive model, which holds that emotional and behavioral responses are shaped by how ind…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 58× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2574-612X 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Cognitive therapy is a structured, evidence-based form of psychotherapy that aims to relieve psychological distress by identifying and modifying maladaptive thoughts, beliefs, and information-processing biases. Grounded in the cognitive model, which holds that emotional and behavioral responses are shaped by how individuals appraise events, it teaches patients to recognize automatic negative thoughts and underlying schemas, to test their accuracy, and to replace them with more balanced appraisals, often integrated with behavioral techniques in cognitive behavioral therapy. It is applied across a range of conditions, including depression, anxiety disorders, post-traumatic stress, and adjustment difficulties in medical illness, and is delivered in individual, group, and developmentally adapted formats for children and adolescents. Related approaches such as cognitive-analytic and rumination-focused therapies extend the framework to specific presentations. The subject matter examined in this area includes psychosocial interventions in bipolar disorder, cognitive-analytic therapy for women with breast cancer and post-traumatic stress disorder, therapy for dissociative amnesia, combined therapy versus usual care in depressed cancer patients with pain, cognitive behavior therapy in school settings, resilience-building in youth with ADHD, contextual-conceptual approaches to suicide prevention, and rumination-focused cognitive-behavioral therapy. The journal publishes peer-reviewed research on cognitive therapy and related psychotherapeutic interventions and their clinical application.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2018

Dissociative Amnesia – A Challenge to Therapy  

Staniloiu AngelicaCorresponding author
University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
International Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research Cited by 30 doi:10.14302/issn.2574-612X.ijpr-18-2246
2015

Why Music in Neurology?

Raglio AlfredoCorresponding author
Department of Biomedical and Specialistic Surgical Sciences, Section of Neurological Clinic, University of Ferrara, Via Aldo Moro 8, 44100 Cona, Ferrara, Italy.
Neurological Research and Therapy doi:10.14302/issn.2470-5020.jnrt-14-483

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 58 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in International Journal of Psychotherapy Practice and Research (ISSN 2574-612X).

Journal editorial board
Karim Sedky · United States Tullio Scrimali · Italy DAMIANA SCUTERI · Italy

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