What is Cognitive Behaviour Therapy? anf family therapy?

Question

what are cognitive and behaviour therapy? how are they used and what are they used for? advantages and disadvantages?

Answer 1

Cognitive Behavioural therapy is a form of therapy were the therapist looks at your attitudes and behaviour patterns, in a given situation (usually the problem/issue you go to them with), and helps develop a plan of action as far as ways of modifying reactions, feelings, behaviour and thought processes to improve that situation... this can be done individually or in groups, and mostly requires both the therapist and the patient be actively involved in the therapy ... as opposed to the therapist listening, while the patient vents etc. Pros are that it gives the patients something concrete to work with, and they can see change happening, as behaviours etc change. Cons are that not every situation can be changed through behaviour modification..sometimes it can take many years to get to the root of an issue and psychotherapy etc is more appropriate.

Family therapy usually involves groups of people within a "family" group... which does not have to mean relatives... family groups can be any grouping of relationships which have a certain dynamic... friends, school, mom and dad, spouse, boyfriend, neighbour etc. This type of therapy can use cognitive behavioural as part of the therapy ... but usually involves discovering the different dynamics within the "family" relationship... and how those dynamics came to cause the situation... for example a family has a son who is considered the "problem" kid, and they bring him for therapy... through the studying of the family dynamics it could show that he is not actually the problem but rather the "symptom" of what is going on in the family... Pros of this therapy are obviously that you are not just considering the individual, but rather the situation as a whole, and therfore can cause more change to occur. However a con to this may be that it is not appropriate for every person... some families will refuse to cooperate and so the therapy types may not work for that case... as the individual is unable to enforce the proper change without their help.
hope this helps

Answer 2

I'm not a psychologist, but I think cognitive behaviour therapy is when the therapist help you change the way you think, which has an effect on the way you behave. People tend to settle into certain thought patterns which are difficult to change after years and years of thinking and behaving the same way, and which can be destructive to yourself and other people. With therapy these thoughts are changed, though, and as a result your behaviour.

Obviously family therapy will have to do with relationships within a family, and also changing old negative patterns which have been established within these relationships. I'm sure that if it's a good therapist you can only benefit from it. You can never learn enough about yourself, your own strong and weak points, and trying to change for the better is always worthwhile.

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