A breadth of existing research and clinical material is
integrated into schema therapy for couples counseling, including work from John Gottman, Sue Johnson's Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, Gestalt Therapy,
psychodrama and more.
Several practitioners have worked to
integrate CBT into the Psychodramatic model by highlighting the ways CBT enhances
psychodrama exercises (Boury, Treadwell, & Kumar, 2001, Treadwell, Kumar, & Wright 2004), adapting
psychodrama to include the exploration of irrational beliefs (Kipper, 2002), and considering the way in which
psychodrama could be considered a form of CBT (Baim, 2007; Fisher, 2007; Treadwell, Travaglini, Reisch, & Kumar, 2011; Wilson, 2009).
He would begin to
integrate these studies and skills as he then proceeded to study Group Psychotherapy, Sociometry and
Psychodrama with J.L. and Zerka Moreno in the early1970's.