ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses various clinical strategies for inducing and maintaining positive expectancies, by influencing couples' confidence in the treatment strategy and their trust in the person delivering the treatment approach to them. It devotes to a consideration of strategies for establishing a collaborative set. The chapter also discusses cognitive restructuring as a tool in behavioral marital therapy, and also considers the advantages and disadvantages of devoting considerable time in therapy to modifying belief systems rather than overt behavior. It considers the use of "paradox" in marital therapy from a behavioral perspective. The therapist actively orchestrates and directs the change process in behavioral marital therapy, and it is through his/her influence that technology has an effect. The chapter enumerates some of the more common uses of cognitive restructuring, followed by an attempt to temper the zeal of cognitive therapists by emphasizing the need for maintaining a behavioral perspective despite the adjunctive value of cognitive intervention strategies.
