The grounded cognition foundation of the first cognitive model in cognitive behavior therapy: implications for practice

Abstract

Cognitive Behavior Therapies (CBTs) are the gold standard therapies for emotional disorders (David et al., ). How cognition is structured and restructured is central to many CBTs. Based on the mainstream cognitive science model, many influential CBT forms such as cognitive therapy and rational emotive behavior therapy (REBT) have adopted an amodal perspective on cognition. From this framework, cognition is pure information transduced from experiences or experience-independent amodal symbols (language-like symbols) that are stored in memory (Barsalou, ). Distortions of cognition are the result