Jeffrey Young
Also known as Jeffrey E. Young
American psychologist who developed schema therapy.
At a glance
Roles
Schema therapy (Developed schema therapy)
Main ideas
Early maladaptive schemas, Schema modes, Culture matters
See all 3Books to start with
Reinventing Your Life (1993), Schema Therapy: A Practitioner's Guide (2003), Schema Therapy: Distinctive Features (2011)
See all 3Connections
Aaron Beck, Disarming the Narcissist: Surviving and Thriving with the Self-Absorbed and 5 others
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- He developed schema therapy, an integrative therapy for personality disorders and chronic problems.
- He trained at Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, then did postdoctoral work with Aaron Beck.
- He founded the Schema Therapy Institute.
- He co-wrote the professional manual Schema Therapy and the self-help book Reinventing Your Life.
Why it matters
- His model of core needs, 18 schemas, coping styles and modes is the foundation every schema therapist learns.
Key facts
- Born
- 9 Mar 19501
- Known for
- Developing schema therapy1
- Founded
- The Schema Therapy Institute1
- Trained
- Yale University; University of Pennsylvania; postdoctoral studies with Aaron Beck1
- Known books
- Schema Therapy (for professionals) and Reinventing Your Life (for the public)1
- Measures
- Young Schema Questionnaire, Young Parenting Inventory, Young-Rygh Avoidance Inventory, Young Compensation Inventory2
Roles
Main ideas
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Early maladaptive schemas3
Self-defeating patterns that start when childhood needs go unmet and repeat through life; he identified 18 in 5 domains.
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Schema modes3
With Klosko and Weishaar he described modes, the states a person shifts into, in four groups.
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Culture matters1
In a 2021 interview he said understanding how culture affects schemas and modes is critical to doing schema therapy well.
Books to start with
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Self-help book with Janet Klosko for the general public.
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Schema Therapy: A Practitioner's Guide (2003)1
The professional manual, with Janet Klosko and Marjorie Weishaar (Guilford Press).
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Schema Therapy: Distinctive Features (2011)3
Short introduction with Eshkol Rafaeli and David Bernstein (Routledge).
Connections
Related
- Aaron BeckPersonDid postdoctoral studies with him at the University of Pennsylvania
- Disarming the Narcissist: Surviving and Thriving with the Self-AbsorbedBookWrote the foreword
- Group Schema Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: A Step-by-Step Treatment Manual with Patient WorkbookBookWrote a guest chapter
- Wendy BeharyPersonTrained and worked with him since 1989
Links
Sources
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