Schema Therapy: A Practitioner's Guide
Also known as Schema Therapy: A Practitioner's Guide (2003)
The founding clinical textbook of schema therapy, by Young, Klosko and Weishaar
At a glance
What it argues
Beyond standard CBT, Childhood needs
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18 schemas in 5 domains, Three coping styles, Ten schema modes …
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Social isolation, Flashcards and schema diary
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Schema Therapy in Practice, Schema Therapy: Distinctive Features, Schema Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder
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Jeffrey Young, Janet S. Klosko and 6 others
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- Personality disorders and other long-standing problems often do not respond to standard cognitive therapy.
- Schema therapy adds the client's childhood history, imagery and other experiential work, and the therapy relationship.
- The book sets out eighteen early maladaptive schemas in five domains, the coping styles, and the schema modes.
- It gives step-by-step cognitive, experiential and behavioral strategies, with protocols for borderline and narcissistic personality disorder.
Why it matters
- The core text for anyone who wants to practise schema therapy, written by its developer.
- Wikipedia's account of the model's schemas, coping styles and modes is built largely on it.
Key facts
- Authors
- Jeffrey E. Young, Janet S. Klosko and Marjorie E. Weishaar1
- Published
- March 2003 (hardcover); paperback November 20061
- Publisher
- Guilford Press1
- Pages
- 4361
- ISBN
- 9781572308381 (hardcover); 9781593853723 (paperback)1
- Audience
- Clinicians learning schema therapy; the publisher calls it the first major text on the approach1
- Influence
- More than 60,000 copies in print1
What it argues
Key ideas
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18 schemas in 5 domains2
From Abandonment/Instability to Punitiveness, grouped by the kind of unmet need.
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Three coping styles2
Surrender, avoidance and overcompensation, each of which tends to reinforce the schema.
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Ten schema modes2
Child, dysfunctional coping, dysfunctional parent and Healthy Adult modes.
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Limited reparenting2
Using the therapy relationship itself is one of the most central techniques.
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Chapters3
Assessment and education, cognitive and experiential strategies, behavioral pattern-breaking, the therapy relationship, mode work.
Examples from the book
Read next
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The newer, mode-based introduction most trainees use alongside it.
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Schema Therapy: Distinctive Features
A short tour of the model in 30 points, co-written by Young.
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Schema Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder
The full protocol for the disorder schema therapy was first tested on.
Connections
Written by
- Jeffrey YoungPerson
- Janet S. Klosko
- Marjorie E. Weishaar
Related
- Schema therapyTopicThe model's main textbook
- Early maladaptive schemasTopicDefines the 18 schemas and 5 domains
- Schema modesTopicIts chapter on schema mode work set out the 10 modes
- Cognitive behavioral therapyTopicExtends cognitive therapy to personality disorders
- Empty chair techniqueTopicOne of the experiential techniques it uses
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