Cognitive therapy is brain rehabilitation intervention to improve specific cognitive functions such as attentiveness (concentration, focus), memory (recall and retention), word-finding effectiveness (creating and solving word puzzles), list remembering (through visualization), information organizational skills, language arts skills such as acrostics / ABC poems, pedagogic or academic singing or vocal music practice, picture reading exercises, executive function skills of self-development and self-monitoring.
Cognitive therapy is planned and executed under the guidance of a therapist or developmental psychology experts that address rehabilitation and improvement in eight executive functions of human mind such as (I) impulse control, (ii) emotional control, (iii) flexible and divergent thinking, (iv) working memory, (v) self-management (planning and prioritizing), (vi) self-monitoring, (vii) task initiation, and (viii) organization.
After the diagnosis of the current executive functional levels of the client, therapist who is an expert in cognitive psychology too, designs interventions with protocol for 100 hours through demonstration, guided learning and intense practice to revive the memory cells or neurons. At times, cognitive and spiritual therapies are combined to get rid of negative emotions and clutter of the mind.
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