SCHEMA
This workshop has been endorsed and will attract 14 hours credit for PD purposes. They can also be counted as "active hours" in the PBA system for the following colleges: Clinical and Counselling. (10-298)
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Working with Difficult Clients (Schema Focused Therapy).
Schema Focused Therapy was first described in 1989 by Dr
Jeffrey Young. His website
contains much useful information for both clients and therapists. The site
is not well organised, but will repay a thorough browsing.
This workshop has been a perennial favourite since we first ran it in 1993.
It has been overhauled and updated for 2010. Click here for a brief (2 page)
introduction
to schema focused therapy.
Pre-workshop Reading. The workshop is fairly experiential, so having some familiarity with the background will be necessary to have a framework to work with. Here is a brief 9 page summary of background concepts, and the workshop outline. Pre-workshop Material and Workshop Outline. (PDF) The first chapter of Young's 2003 book is available here: Schema Therapy: A Practitioner's Guide . This 62 page chapter provides a very clear and comprehensive statement on the theoretical foundation. (PDF, 62 pages)
Chris Lee and Graham Taylor have conducted original research which has contributed to the development of Schema theory. Read their 1999 paper which was published in Cognitive Research & Therapy.
Outcome research on treatment for personality disorders are rare, because the complexity and duration of therapy. Here is the abstract of a recent study comparing Schema Focused Therapy with Psychodynamic therapy, with patients diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder. The Schema Therapy intervention was clearly superior on all outcome measures. Click here for the complete article.
A useful tool for assessing which schema will be the focus of therapy is the revised Young Schema Questionnaire (YSQ-L3). We have developed a computerised scoring programme to assist with interpretation. Click here to download. Directions on how to use this programme can also be downloaded. Click here to download instructions.
Updated 14 December 2009