It describes a myriad of approaches to therapy that focus on addressing psychological distress at a cognitive level.
Notably, a common domain of interventions is the inspection of past experiences that led to formations of certain beliefs and attitudes.
[7] Cognitive interventions assume that thought processes can, to some extent, be controlled and changed by the individual.
Beck developed cognitive therapies to address and change these beliefs in order to help manage depression.
[8] Beck's cognitive therapy was further developed for clinical uses to address a broad spectrum of mental illnesses.
[9] Cognitive therapies developed to address mental disorders focused on changing maladaptive beliefs that modify people's perception of self and well as experience of their environment.
[11] However, due to adult neurogenesis, people are capable of enhancing their cognitive abilities throughout their life.
Some notable models are: Current evidence suggests that cognition-based interventions do improve mental performance (i.e. memory, executive function, attention, and speed) in older adults and people with mild cognitive impairment.
[14] Especially, immediate and delayed verbal recall resulted in higher performance gains from memory training.