Overview

This workshop looks at the extension of schema therapy beyond the model of 18 early maladaptive schemas to take into account schema modes. Modes were added to the Schema Therapy model to assist clients who have rapidly changing mood states. These changes help in dealing with clients who are more emotionally labile and may be diagnosed with a personality disorder or Complex PTSD. The treatment outcome data published to date strongly supports the model. Attendance at this workshop assumes a good working knowledge of the basic Schema Therapy model taught in the Introductory Workshop. An emphasis in the workshop is on the practise of experiential skills to facilitate mode change. 

Learning Outcomes

In this workshop you will: 

• Review the Schema Therapy model with an emphasis on the role of modes.
• Understand how to assess and conceptualise an individual with a personality disorder in mode terms.
• Learn and practice therapeutic strategies to deal with each mode in an individual therapy context.
• Examples of mode specific approaches taught in the workshop include:
• How to bypass detached and dissociated modes
• How to confront angry modes
• How to nurture vulnerable modes
• How to banish punitive modes linked to shame

 

The workshop also focuses on a schema approach to the therapy relationship. Therefore skills associated with reparenting techniques and limit setting are explored and practised.

The workshop concludes with a session on understanding the role of therapist's schemas in the therapeutic relationship.

Presenter(s)

Associate Professor Christopher Lee

About the presenter(s)

Associate Professor Christopher Lee works in private practise and the University of Western Australia. He was Senior Clinical Psychologist at a major teaching hospital in Perth for 11 years where he set up a treatment programme team for Borderline Personality Disorders. He is an accredited trainer in Schema Focused Therapy by the International Society of Schema Therapists. Chris has conducted workshops in treating personality disorders with schema therapy and previously with DBT throughout Australia and overseas. He has published journal articles and book chapters in the areas schema therapy, personality disorders, and the treatment of PTSD. The International Society of Schema Therapists awarded him the Jefrey Young award for research excellence in 2024. He has also received International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and EMDRIA awards for research excellence in 1999, 2014, and 2019. He was the 2011 recipient of the Australian Psychological Society’s Ian Campbell memorial award for his work as a scientist practitioner. He a been a principal investigator in three international multicentre randomized control trials, one investigating the treatment of borderline personality disorder with schema therapy and two on treating complex PTSD. He will present this data at the workshop.

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Website/s

https://www.psychology-training.com.au/schema-therapy