Angelica is thirty five years old and has a pharmacist assistant’s license from a trade school in Puerto Ricco. She has a job as a pharmacist assistant but only makes enough to get by and pay the bills. One little monetary set back can be a setback to …show more content…
Recently Angela had a break down because the house was a mess and she had been working a lot of hours. On top of that some bills are overdue and Ian got suspended from school for fighting with one of his friends that he not only was fighting with, but picked the fight for no reason.
Section 2- Cognitive Behavioral Family Therapy Cognitive behavioral family therapy is based on the idea that the family targets their family problems, identifies new behavioral goals and learns new theory techniques to change their behaviors . The therapist must be able to observe how often the problem is taking place, as well as what is the stressor is that is causing a problem with in the family. Cognitive behavioral family therapy emphasizes the need for attitude change for the family to have and maintain behavior modification (Nichols, 2014) Techniques in which the family, specifically the parents, solve their problems with the children should be an important concern for the therapist. The way that parents react to their children behavior can be the difference in the child reactive behavior. Operant conditioning is a way to break children from their bad habits and enhance their good behaviors. Nichols