Primary Goals
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
Treatment Strategy
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.