Cognitive-Behavioral Couple Therapy (CBCT)
a. Focuses on partners cognitions and the judgments of the relationship as well as their conduct.
b. Seeks to change various aspects of the ways partners think about and appraise their partnership.
c. Addresses the spouse's selective attention - tendency to notice some things and to ignore others, and tries to instill more reasonable expectancies, more forgiving attributions, and more adaptive relationship beliefs in each partner.
d. Participants are taught to track and test their thoughts, actively considering various attributions for any neg. beh., recognizing and challenging unrealistic beliefs, and generating lists of the pros/cons of the expectations they hold.
d. Ppl often import problematic habits, focus mainly on current patterns. The idea is that no matter where maladaptive cognitions came from, the couple will be more content if they're able to perceive each other fairly/kindly/reasonably. Cognitions, both, present.