What are the Goals of AF-CBT?

The primary goals of AF-CBT treatment are to:

• Improve caregiver-child relationships
• Strengthen healthy parenting practices
• Enhance children’s coping and social skills
• Promote child safety/welfare and child well-being
• Maintain family safety
• Reduce anger, verbal aggression, threats of force, and emotional abuse
• Reduce the use of physical force in the family
• Reduce child physical abuse risk or recidivism

AF-CBT adopts a comprehensive treatment stratedgy that incorporates:

• coping skills and emotion regulation
• behavior management
• problem solving
• social skills training
• positive thinking
• communication
• clarification

The advantage of this program is that all of these techniques, handouts, training examples, and outcome measures are integrated in a structured approach that can be easily accessed and used.