In session 6, the couple learns
a dyadic cognitive intervention process that has the goal of collaboratively increasing flexibility in each partner's thinking and evaluating cognitions that maintain both PTSD and relationship problems.
An
intervention designed to enhance
dyadic coping among couples with a depressed partner, Coping - Oriented Couples Therapy (COCT), demonstrated efficacy equivalent to
Cognitive Therapy (CT) and Interpersonal Therapy (IPT)(e.g. Bodenmann et al., 2008).