el's mood at any given point in the therapy.
Generally, many successful therapists combine elements of cognitive and behavioral therapies into an integrated treatment plan that may provide solution-focused interventions as well. Levis (1999) states that traditional Watsonian behaviorism has given way in the therapeutic milieu to the influence of cognitive theory and cognitive therapy. Cognitive-behavioral therapy or CBT is now employed by a large number of therapists who have found behavioral interventions and particularly negative reinforcement or aversive stimulus-response conditioning to be ineffective with many client groups (Levis, 1999).
A number of specific behaviors and cognitions or beliefs must be targeted in the therapeutic intervention. The behaviors that are most significant include infidelity, the physical abuse of Rachel by Luis, Luis' erratic involvement in meaningful employment, and Luis' tendency to absent himself from the home when he becomes angry with his wif
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