
Trainings
Schema Therapy Workshop

Instructor
Ian Robertson, MSW, RSW
Format
Online or In Person
Duration
2 Days
Training Overview
This workshop introduces participants to Schema Therapy, a model that evolved from cognitive-behavioural therapy combined with various psychotherapeutic approaches. Schema Therapy emphasizes exploring the childhood and adolescent origins of psychological problems, integrating these into cognitive information processing. Participants will learn to assist clients in altering maladaptive coping patterns, disengaging from unhelpful schema activations, and fostering a healthy, well-balanced adult self.
Who Is It For?
Therapists and counsellors working with trauma, attachment, and personality disorders
What Will You Learn?
1
Foundational Knowledge of Schema Therapy
Gain an overview/introduction to schema therapy, origins, domains, and effective techniques
Explore conditional versus unconditional schemas
2
Schema Modes and Mapping
Review four schema modes and schema therapy assumptions
Outline schema mode mapping and monitoring
Assessment instruments to identify Schema Modes
3
Behavioral Patterns and Therapeutic Techniques
Understand and update maladaptive coping modes
Learn altering behavioral patterns of the child, inner critic, and coping modes
Understand the role of chair work in schema therapy
Developing the healthy adult and happy child
4
Experiential Strategies
Analyze imagery experiential strategies and behavioral experiments
Learn to reparent the self along with gentle empathic confrontation
Strengthening the development of the healthy, integrated adult
Building cooperation, self-care, self-efficacy, and self-control within the healthy adult
Integrating treatment approaches using serval different strategies, forms and approaches

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