Family Therapy: Cognitive Behavioral Perspective

According to Friedberg (2006), he argues that “a cognitive behavioral perspective, the family environment is the milieu where children and parents’ cognitions are played out” (p.160). Family therapy has become a new field as many therapists have not integrated CBT into working with families. Friedberg (2006) states that “cognitive behavioral family therapy recognizes that a change in one person in the system changes the other individuals within the family” (p. 160). Cognitive behavioral therapy used for a counselor that specializes in family would go about changing the family's individual beliefs about what roles each member has within the familial context. One method of changing these beliefs would be to use “cognitive restructuring, rational