Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ( Cbt ) And A Family Systems Approach

Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a type of therapy that aims to help a person manage their problems by changing how they think and act. It is a problem solving approach which recognizes that clients have a behavioral

     The family tends to play an important role in the development of eating disorders. Males tend to have very strict, domineering fathers who encouraged development in sports. It has also been recognized that many men with eating disorders may not have had a father figure around at all. (Zerbe, 1992) Their mothers have been described as overprotective and controlling. (Romero, 1994) Adolescent boys with eating disorders relate that parents or siblings are usually on diets as well and there tends to be an emphasis on food and dieting

The process of individual therapeutic treatment will often result in heavy invocation of intimate personal relationships, formative experiences and conflict management. These characteristics would ultimately lead to the evolution of family systems therapy, a mode of treatment which recognizes the inherency that familial patterns and inter-relations possess where counseling and treatment are concerned. The school of though revolving around the family systems ideology would naturally blossom into a wide variance of strategic schools of thought, differing practically and philosophically but all share the common ground of emphasizing the impact of family on the presence of complex and the role that family must play in treatment thereof. It is thus that the discussion here offers a concise assessment of some major offshoot models such as the Bowen Theory, the Cognitive Behavioral Model, Attachment-Focused Family Therapy and Individual Therapy. Each of these is channeled through a family systems lens, with the traits distinguishing them from one another considered in further detail here below.

CBT is relatively short term, goal directed, problem focused treatments that are based on the model that changing cognitions and leads to behavioural change (Dobson, 2002 as cited in Sudak, D. M. 2006). We interact with the world through our mental representation of it. If our mental representations are inaccurate or our ways of reasoning

An eating disorder has complex origins. Although most people think that an obsession with weight and appearance leads to this deadly disease, this is merely the surface issue. Along with the ultimate need for control, other causes can be genetic factors, parental influence, behavioral influence, environmental influence, and biochemistry. Many studies have found that eating disorders run in families. Almost always, it is the closely related females in the family who are affected. Some researchers believe that negative parental influence can come from both the maternal and paternal sides. Mothers often comment on their daughters' appearance, whether on their physical shape or on their ability to dress well. So often simple motherly love turns into a psychological desire for their daughters to be what they were not. Studies have found that these

CBT is a time- sensitive, structured, present oriented psychotherapy (Beck Institute, 2016). CBT is directed at helping clients change their unhelpful thinking and behavior through various techniques. The participant has failed to recognize that his irrational thoughts, (feeling singled out because of his race and health issues) are preventing him from fully functioning causing him to become depressed. He is also struggling to shift his focus from his negative interactions with the staff and residents in treatment and this leads to feelings of anger.

This studies goal was to examine the extent to which family environment and attachment styles are concurrently related to eating disorders.

Family Systems Therapy practices under the idea that all clients are connected to a larger living system—their family, and that they can best be understood by assessing the interactions they have with their family. Therefore, they believe that actions of one family member will affect all other members of the family. Also, because the family plays such an important role in human behavior family therapists see symptoms as the client’s way of expressing a set of habits or patterns that they experience within their family (Corey, 2013).

We are all genetically and socially affected by our families. Families serve as the matrix of our identity. It is through interactions within the family that we develop a sense of who we are and how we fit in (Minuchin, Rosman & Baker, 1978). Parents serve as role models, providing examples for attitudes, coping skills, and eating habits, as well as setting standards for perfection, ambition and acceptance (Hall & Cohn, 1992). Many researchers claim that family dynamics are at the root of eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa. The role of dysfunctional family interactions in the pathogenesis of anorexia nervosa has been given a prominent place in the research field. Evidence for a specific

This paper will talk about some of the things that people with eating disorders go through in their daily lives and give a general description of what exactly an eating disorder is and why it is important. Schwitzer Alan M., Bergholz Kim, Dore Terri, and Salimi Lamieh all talk about a few things that they did in order to prevent eating disorders among college woman as well as some of the treatment methods and preventative measure someone can take in order to prevent something like this from happening again. It will also talk about something called the “three-legged stool” which was created by Sackett et al. in 1996. The “three-legged stool” is a treatment method for eating disorders which considers research evidence, patient preference and values, and clinical expertise. There will also be some evidence included to explain why those three things are important in treating eating disorders. Carol B. Peterson, Carolyn Black Becker, Janet Treasure, Roz Shafran, and Rachel Bryant-Waugh all mention how these things will help optimize treatment of eating disorders because patients won’t be forced into doing something that they don’t enjoy in order to overcome their eating disorder. The last thing that will be talked about is a case study conducted by Joanna Steinglass, Karin Foerde, Katrina Kostro, Daphna Shohamy, and Timothy Walsh. This case study attempts to develop a new paradigm

An initial overview of CBT, according to Brady, Taylor, and Rego (2012), describes, “CBT as a system of psychotherapy that merges the procedures of cognitive therapy with the procedures of behavioral therapy” (p.25).CBT states that it is not the triggers that upset people but instead how the person perceives them. Regardless of how they originate, psychological disorders are maintained through distorted negative thoughts and maladaptive behaviors. As a result, a CBT therapist focuses on modifying cognitions and behaviors, benefiting the patient for a long term change in the way they feel, think, and act even in the presence of triggers. CBT tends to be a brief, top down approach centered on the here and now. That is to say, what started the problem is distinguished from is allowing the problem to continue. CBT has numerous points which can be recognized in the model for

Cognitive behavioral therapy is a type of psychotherapy developed by Aaron Beck in the early 1960s (Beck, 2011). Its roots lay in famous theories and models, such as: Pavlov and his dogs, Albert Bandura, and Albert Ellis. (Coady & Leeman, 2008). CBT is directed towards solving existing problems and modifying dysfunctional thinking by therapist using structured, goal oriented, short term sessions. The goal of CBT is to change the client’s patterns of thinking or behavior that are the root of the client’s difficulties. By changing the client’s thinking and behavior, the results change how they feel.

Santos, 2014). Forty percent of parents who have a child with an eating disorder experience

Similar to the form of group therapy in the previous case study, the use of family therapy is a common treatment for coping with an eating disorder. In a controlled study on the effects of family therapy as a source of treatment for adolescents with anorexia nervosa, an observational study was conducted comparing two forms of family therapy. In addition to observing the patients in treatment they also examined the five-year follow-up of 40 patients who utilized conjoined group family therapy and separate family therapy (Eisler, Simic, Russell and Dare. 2007). The study included interviewing 40 patients who received either separate or conjoint family therapy. In addition to the interviews with the families, all participants also took part in 6-question surveys. The data collected measured the relationship between symptomatic outcome and psychosocial