Cognitive Affect Balance

In this example the patient has logically worked out that if she is to have any chance of getting her children back and released from child protection she has to behave in certain ways and tell people that she is ‘fine’. Following this, she states that she does not want her youngest child, in care and she has worked out a rationale to prevent this. Anthony Bateman suggests this is a cognitive process overall and tries to rebalance the process to encourage integration of the affective and cognitive dimensions around the topic of her child.