Cognitive therapy

Cognitive therapy is a directive therapy based on the belief that the way one perceives and structures the world determines one's feelings and behavior. Treatment aims at alternging conitive schema andhenc epermitting the patient to change her/her self-view.

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Bruce Compas, Ph.D.
Patricia and Rodes Hart Professor of Psychology and Human Development; Professor of Pediatrics; Director, Psycho-Oncology, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

Steven Hollon, Ph.D.
Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of Psychology; Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences

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