Integrative models of psychotherapy provide clinicians with a number of benefits, including organized access to a variety of assessment and intervention strategies throughout the course of treatment. Such benefits allow practitioners to be flexible in therapy, to tailor treatment to the specific needs of their clients, and to service a wide range of client types. Systemic cognitive developmental therapy (SCDT) represents one such integrative marriage and family treatment model that uses a cognitive-developmental framework to design assessment procedures, create developmentally oriented treatment plans, and evaluate the effectiveness of the therapeutic process. Because SCDT draws from a variety of family counseling and therapy approaches, it can provide clinicians access to a wide range of familiar structured activities and exercises for use in treatment. In this article, the authors describe the SCDT model and illustrate how this cognitive-developmental framework can be used to organize various structured exercises and activities into developmentally oriented treatment plans. A case example is provided to illustrate application of the model.
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