Which therapeutic approach emphasizes that people are often disturbed because of their negative interpretations of events?

the answer is: cognitive therapy

cognitive therapy is a form of psychotherapy that carried out with the initial assumption that the psychological problems that occurs to the patient exist because the patients have a defective way of perceiving the situation around them.

The purpose of cognitive therapy is to repair the patients'way of thinking or modifying their inherent belief in order to see themselves in a more positive light.