Workshop 17
Schema Therapy: New Strategies for Difficult Personality Disorders
Jeff Young, Cognitive Therapy Center of New York
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Schema Therapy expands on the proven principles of traditional cognitive-behavioral treatments by drawing on strategies from object relations, attachment and self theories, and gestalt therapy. ST is especially well-suited to patients with entrenched, chronic psychological problems, especially those with personality disorders. The schema approach has also been utilized extensively with eating disorders, intractable couples problems, long-standing difficulties maintaining intimate relationships, criminal offenders, and relapse prevention for depression, anxiety, and substance abuse. Outcome research with borderline patients suggests that schema therapy is highly effective, with a low drop-out rate. Participants will learn about the newest developments in ST, with special emphasis on “schema mode” work, an approach developed especially for the more severe personality disorders, such as borderline, narcissistic, and anti-social clients. Patients are viewed in terms of specific modes, (similar to ego states), such as the Abandoned Child, Detached Protector, Self-Aggrandizer, Angry Child, and Punitive Parent. |
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Key Objectives: You will learn to:
1) Conceptualize clients with personality disorders utilizing a deeper, more complex developmental model that leads to effective interventions for characterological clients;
2) Use emotive imagery and new mode dialogue techniques to change schemas and break therapeutic impasses;
3) Incorporate limited reparenting strategies and other aspects of the therapy relationship in working with resistant PD’s. |
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| Training Modalities Through the use of patient videotape segments, Dr. Young will demonstrate a variety of treatment strategies, including limited reparenting, the schema mode inventory, mode dialogues, and advanced imagery techniques. Participants will also learn how to deal with patients’ angry or demeaning behavior toward the therapist and the therapist's own schemas. |
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| Dr. Young is Founder and Director of the Cognitive Therapy Centers of New York and Connecticut, and the Schema Therapy Institute. He is also on the faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University. Dr. Young completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Cognitive Therapy at the University of Pennsylvania with Dr. Aaron Beck, and went on to serve as Director of Research and Training. He is the founder of Schema Therapy, an integrative approach for personality disorders and treatment-resistant patients and has published widely in the fields of both cognitive and schema therapies, including two major books: Schema Therapy: A Practitioner's Guide, written for mental health professionals, and Reinventing Your Life, a popular self-help book based on schema therapy. . Dr. Young was awarded the prestigious NEEI Mental Health Educator of the Year award in 2003 |
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References:
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Schema Therapy: A Practitioner's Guide
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Reinventing Your Life
3) Cognitive Schemas and Core Beliefs in Psychological Problems: A Scientist-Practitioner's Guide |
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