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Part 2: Schema Therapy - Basics and Beyond

Session #: 710-606B
Presenter(s): Wendy Behary
Session Length: 5 hr. 00 min.
Event: 2010 Psychotherapy Networker Symposium
Date: March 25-28, 2010

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Many people grow up with maladaptive internal psychological schemas--pervasive, dysfunctional, and self-defeating themes or patterns regarding themselves and their relationships with others developed during childhood, which they keep repeating throughout life. Emerging in response to unmet needs in childhood, schemas lead to long-term, often damaging ways of responding to life circumstances. They're particularly apparent in clients with borderline, narcissistic, and other chronic, debilitating symptoms. In this workshop, we'll explore a therapy model that helps clients recognize triggering life events that activate these self-defeating behavioral patterns, as well as the underlying, childhood-based schemas. You'll learn an approach to therapy that emphasizes the therapeutic relationship--with a special focus on adaptive re-parenting strategies, like empathic confrontation and limit-setting--as a clinical response to early unmet needs that enhances attunement, stability, safety, and support.

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