Group Schema Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: A Step-by-Step Treatment Manual with Patient Workbook
Also known as Group Schema Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder, Group Schema Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder (2nd ed., 2012)
Farrell and Shaw's step-by-step manual and patient workbook for schema therapy in groups
At a glance
What it argues
Groups can do it
Key ideas
Three original goals, Limited reparenting in groups, Levels of emotional awareness
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Why patients didn't use their skills, Materials
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Schema Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder, DBT Skills Training Manual
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Joan M. Farrell, Ida A. Shaw and 4 others
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- Many BPD patients are too distressed to sit through a 50-minute session, so Farrell and Shaw began by reducing distress and building emotional awareness.
- Asking patients why they did not use their skills led to a third goal: changing schemas.
- The result is group schema therapy, a manual with handouts, group exercises and homework.
- The publisher calls it the first treatment manual for group schema therapy and a cheaper way to offer it.
Why it matters
- For clinicians who want to run schema therapy groups for borderline patients, with session materials ready.
- The publisher says it rests on the only group schema therapy model validated by published evidence.
Key facts
- Authors
- Joan M. Farrell and Ida A. Shaw, with guest chapters by Jeff Young, Arnoud Arntz, Hannie van Genderen and others1
- Published
- April 20121
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell1
- Pages
- 3361
- ISBN
- 97811199582911
- Audience
- Clinicians running group treatment for borderline personality disorder1
- Evidence behind it
- In the pilot trial of its model, 94% with group schema therapy added to usual care no longer met BPD criteria, vs 16% with usual care alone (32 patients)2
What it argues
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Groups can do it1
Schema therapy can be adapted to a group setting, a cost-effective way to make evidence-based BPD treatment widely available.
Key ideas
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Three original goals3
Reduce distress, raise emotional awareness so pre-crisis distress is noticed, then change schemas.
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Limited reparenting in groups3
Their approach targeted deficits in early emotional learning and failed attachment from the start.
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Levels of emotional awareness3
Lane and Schwartz's theory helped explain why patients experienced emotion only as global extremes.
Examples from the book
Read next
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Schema Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder
The individual treatment the groups build on.
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DBT's group skills training, the other main group format for BPD.
Connections
Links
Sources
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