Recommendations on Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Strategies

RECOMMENDATIONS ON CBT STRATEGIES
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Cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) aims at reconnecting the mutual relationships between people’s behaviors, thoughts, and feelings. It reconnects the relationships by replacing bad and negative feelings and thoughts with positive ones. Thoughts and feelings are very powerful hence harmful ones can cause problems in a family.  
My colleague encountered some problems while using CBT in a family set up on a current session. There were differences between the couple and their 16-year-old daughter. The main challenge the family faced was to uncover the negative thoughts that led to the downfall of their family. the colleague noted that therapists should not inject their automatic feelings and thoughts in a therapy session. 
 I will give recommendations based on my own life experience with a client, Ross family. the family was composed of Mr. and Mrs. Ross and 12-year-old son Victor. Mrs. Ross was lenient and could not discipline Victor and on the other hand, Mr. Ross was authoritative and could punish him. Victor was annoyed about his parent’s decisiveness on limits. When he gets annoyed, he was punished. The behavior continued until it caught worse. The couple thought that by Victor expressing his anger, he was disrespecting them. 
The following are techniques applied during Ross family therapy sessions which should also be applied by my colleague:
Checking moods. 
At the beginning of each therapy session, each family member should state their moods. This will serve as a measurement criterion on the progress. During the first session, the family normally feels d...