Cognitive Behavioral Couple's Therapy Analysis

After reading about the Cognitive and Integrative methods of therapy, the Cognitive Behavioral Couple’s Therapy (CBCT), is what draws the most interest to me, because it helps the couple to see how they affect one another emotionally. CBCT helps a couple to pay attention to the way they communicate with one another. CBCT helps the couple to see that they are communicating negatively. When the couple is aware of the negative behavior, the couple can see the affects, and patterns that are harmful to their relationship. These negative behaviors are called schemas. (Dattilio 2006) ,Schemas is relatively pervasive and resistant to change; therefore, it is important to consider the impact of such schemas on one’s perceptions of the family , schemas are transmitted from previous generations to subsequent ones As the couple learned about the schemas, the couple has the ability reconnect by learning new patterns.( D’Aniello, 2013) lasting change requires the inclusion of significant persons in helping to co-construct and maintain the new narrative. All these …show more content…
The clients are treated as a system. The system doesn't work without all parties working together to attain proactively. The thing, I don’t like about the model is that the therapist can’t be sure of success of the treatment, because the model is based on the clients participation throughout all session, the model isn't going to work without the clients participation. The model, I chose to do my signature assignment is going to be on the CBCT, because I like the fact the model is a problem solving model. As I learn more about the different models within this course, this model stands out to me, because the therapist helps the couple or clients to identify and reorganize key emotional and how those expressions of emotions affect their