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Types of Behavioral and Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapies and…
Types of Behavioral and Cognitive-Behavioral Family Therapies and Techniques
Parent-Skills Training
Children’s behavior is altered when parent's behavior changes (Gladding, page 250).
This type of treatment is linear in nature, and therapists who utilize it are precise and direct in following a set procedure (Gladding, page 250).
The therapist serves as a social learning educator whose prime responsibility is to change parents’ responses to a child or children, through both thoughts and actions (Gladding, page 250).
Functional Family Therapy
This is a “multisystemic approach focusing on relevant systems at several levels (individual, family, and community), and all domains of client experience (biological, behavioral, affective, cognitive, cultural, and relational) (Gladding, page 250).
Behaviors represent an effort by the family to meet needs in personal and interpersonal relationships. Ultimately, behaviors help family members achieve one of three interpersonal states (Gladding, page 250):
Contact/closeness (merging). In the contact/closeness state, family members are drawn together (e.g., in their concern over the delinquent behavior of a juvenile) (Gladding, page 250).
Distance/independence (separating). In separating, family members learn to stay away from each other for fear of fighting (Gladding, page 250).
A combination of states 1 and 2 (midpointing). In this situation, family members fluctuate in their emotional reactions to each other, so that individuals are both drawn toward and repelled from each other (Gladding, page 250).
A family-based, empirically supported treatment for behavioral problems, especially with adolescents (Gladding, page 250).
Cognitive–Behavioral Family Therapy (CBFT)
The cognitive component of the therapy places a heavy emphasis on modifying personal or collective core beliefs, that is, schema (Gladding, page 252).
A major emphasis in CBFT is to teach families how to think for themselves and to think differently when it is helpful (Gladding, page 252).
In CBFT the same principles and techniques used in cognitive–behavioral marital therapy (CBMT) are employed, except on a broader and more extensive basis (Gladding page, 252).
When schemata are modified, the “behavioral component of CBFT focuses on several aspects of family members’ actions. These include (Gladding, page 252):
excess negative interaction and deficits in pleasing behaviors exchanged by family members (Gladding, page 252)
expressive and listening skills used in communication (Gladding, page 252)
problem solving skills (Gladding, page 252)
negotiation and behavior change skills (Gladding, page 252).”