Cognitive Behavior Therapy with Couples and Family Relationships

Abstract

Family conflicts results in divorce cases in the modern societies increasingly. A research by Christensen & Heavey (1999) showed that there is an increasing satisfaction level and success in the getting therapy as a couple when it compares to do not getting therapy (Dattilio, 2010). There are two purposes in this research generally: one of them is to find out the importance of family and couple therapy in the field of therapeutic approaches. And the other aim is to study couple conflicts and family relationship with cognitive behavior therapy. It was seen that cognitive theory and behavioral therapy can be discussed both separately and together depends on the problems in the family relationships. However cognitive behavior therapy is powerful and successful when it integrates with appropriate modals during the treatment of couple conflicts (Dattilio, 2010).

Keywords

• Couple,family,cognitive,behavioral therapy

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