Workshop 1: The Model, Method & Techniques – Full Course

This workshop is suitable for all mental health practitioners with some experience of working with complex cases. No prior knowledge of Schema Therapy is necessary but we would recommend appropriate reading (see the recommended reading list below) in order to get the most out of the workshop.

Learning Outcomes and objectives:
Participants will be able to:

• Convey the schema approach to clients
• Identify and educate the client about their central life problems and unmet core needs
• Formulate and conceptualise complex cases in terms of schema activation (including coping styles and responses) and schema modes.
• Utilise the Young Schema Questionnaire, Young Parenting inventory, Young Compensatory Inventory & the Schema Mode Inventory
• Work meaningfully within the therapeutic relationship during both the assessment and change phases.
• Understand and apply the key components of schema therapies such as limited reparenting and empathic confrontation in order to heal schemas.
• Use chair work and imagery experiential strategies for assessment and change
• Use mode work to bypass unhealthy coping modes
• Use mode work to tackle the Punitive Critic and Demanding Critic Modes
• Use mode work to identify and provide limited reparenting to the vulnerable child mode
• Know their own schemas and their influence in treatment, as well as ways to respond to one’s own schema activation during the therapeutic encounter.
• Understand and utilise cognitive (flashcards & diary cards) and behavioural components in effective treatments
• Apply pattern breaking techniques

Schema Therapy Wales is an ISST approved certification training program in Individual SchemaTherapy. It provides workshops for anyone wishing to gain schema certification as well as stand alone workshops for all mental health professionals wishing to learn more about schema therapy.

Schema Therapy for Couples UK is an ISST approved certification program in Couples Therapy. It provides workshops for anyone wishing to gain schema certification as well as stand alone workshops for professionals working with couples.

Part 2:
The Therapeutic Relationship : Limited Reparenting & Empathic Confrontation Understand the Roles played by the Unhealthy Coping Modes & Working with the Critic Mode Growing the Healthy Adult Mode

Dates:

Day 1: 26/03/26
Day 2: 27/03/26

Time (UK):
8am to 12 noon each morning

Pre-Workshop Reading:

To get the most out of this workshop, whether you are on the certification programme or attending the workshop as a ‘stand-alone’ workshop, it is advisable to begin some reading prior to the course. The recommended readings are:

1. (1)  Young, JE.,Klosko, J.S & Weishaar, M.E. (2003). Schema Therapy – A Practitioner’s Guide. London: Guildford Press. ISBN: 1-57230-838-9 (hardcover)
2. (2)  Young, JE., & Klosko, J.S. (1993). Reinventing Your Life. New York: Plume. ISBN: 0-452-27204-1. Note: this is a self-help book designed for clients to use themselves, but which is also very useful for the clinician.
3. (3)  Arntz, A. & Van Genderen, H. (2009) Schema Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons Ltd. ISBN: 978-0-47051080-3 (cloth); ISBN:978-0-470-51081-0 (pbk)
4. (4)  Arntz, A. & Jacob, G (2013). Schema Therapy in Practice: An Introduction Guide to the Schema Mode Approach, New York: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 978-1-119-96286-1(pbk)
5. (5)  Jacob, G., van Genderen & H., Seebauer, L., (2015). Breaking Negative Thinking Patterns. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons Ltd. ISBN 9781118877715