What is Cognitive Therapy?
Cognitive functions can be defined as the ability to know, including awareness, perception, logical thinking, language, memory and reasoning.
- These skills are,
- Attention (continuous, selective, scrolling),
- Perception (visual, spatial, auditory, tactile),
- Orientation ,
- Memory (short-term, long-term, topographical-ground memory),
- Managerial functions (problem solving and quick decision making,)
- Learning and using knowledge,
- Organisation abstract thinking,
- Mathematical skills.
In people with neurological problems, cognitive impairments often lead to functional problems. It may be manifested by decreased activity performance, problems in recognising objects or impaired sequencing of events. There are individuals who do not recognise their own family members, have difficulty in memory, do not answer the questions asked to them, and have attention problems. Thus, the framework of occupational therapy not only determines the cognitive performance skills and requirements for activity according to the body structure and functions of the person, but also according to the characteristics of the environment and activity or the role of the person.
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