Cognitive Behavioral Technique to use with Britany regarding her parents
Use of skillful training especially in communication. Britany was once well behaved and ambitious and all this suddenly changed as soon as she enrolled in her new school. The changes show that she has feelings of anger towards her situation. She needs to learn how to communicate her disappointments and fears to her parents so that she is able to understand why they made the choice to move and accept their decision (Hofmann et al., 2012).
portions of not fitting in consistent with developmental stage and those indicative of social skills difficulties
The fear of being biracial is consistent with developmental stage a teenager of constant struggles with identity crisis. The fear that she would not be accepted because of her upbringing, culture and beliefs were due to lack of social skills. She had already made this decision in her head without proof therefore operating on an assumption that kept her from socializing.
How to use Cognitive behavioral techniques to address feelings of Being Biracial
The cognitive reconstruction techniques may be used because thinking about her biracial status makes her develop negative moods and ineffective anti-social behavior. Britany can be made to see that her biracial status makes her stand out and she may actually make friends in school because of it (David et al., 2018).
Applications of Principles of REBT
Britany can be made realize that her sadness has been brought about by her own misconceptions of reality based on false assumptions (Ward, 2017).