Behavioral family therapy

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Family therapy

Approaches

Adlerian family therapy CBT Conjoint family therapy Contextual therapy Emotionally Focused Therapy Experential family therapy Family systems therapy Feminist family therapy Medical family therapy Milan systems approach MRI brief therapy Multisystemic therapy Object relations Postmodern Collaborative Therapy Psychoeducation with families Psychoanalytic family therapy Solution focused family therapy Strategic family therapy Structural family therapy Systems family therapy

Notable therapists

Alfred Adler Nathan Ackerman Tom Andersen Harlene Anderson Harry J Aponte Gregory Bateson (1904 – 1980) Ivan Böszörményi-Nagy Murray Bowen Steve de Shazer Milton H. Erickson Richard Fisch James Framo Harry Goolishian John Gottman Robert-Jay Green Jay Haley Lynn Hoffman Don D. Jackson Sue Johnson Bradford Keeney Walter Kempler Cloe Madanes Salvador Minuchin Braulio Montalvo Virginia Satir Mara Selvini Palazzoli Ross Speck Robin Skynner Paul Watzlawick John Weakland Carl Whitaker Michael White Lyman Wynne

Misc

Couples therapy Family Family structure History of family therapy Parenting Parenting styles Parent child communication Person-of-the-Therapist

Behavioural family therapy (BFT) or cognitive behavioral family therapy is a form of family therapy based on the application of the principles of cognitive behavior therapy and learning theory to the family setting.

Based on the work of John Gottman, Albert Ellis, Albert Bandura problems are seen as the result of operant conditioning that reinforce negative behaviors within the family’s interpersonal social exchanges that extinguish desired behavior and promote incentives toward unwanted behaviors. This can lead to irrational beliefs and a faulty family schema.

Treatment techniques

Treatment is aimed at reversing these forces and to promote desired behavior and to extinguish unwanted behavior

• Therapeutic contracts
• Modeling
• Systematic desensitization
• Shaping
• Charting
• Examining irrational beliefs]

See also

• Behaviorism
• Child and Family Behavior Therapy (journal)
• Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT)