Full Course Description
Schema Therapy: Basic & Beyond for Clinical Challenges
Schema Therapy is an innovative approach that emphasizes lifelong patterns, affective change techniques, and an emphasis on re-parenting in the therapeutic relationship.
An extension of cognitive-behavioral therapy Schema Therapy draws from attachment theory, psychodynamics, emotion-focused strategies to treat narcissism, borderline, eating disorders, relationship problems, criminal offenses & more.
This 8-Module self-study digital seminar will include a combination of teaching methods, including lecture, handouts, videos of master schema therapists, demonstrations of applied assessment and change strategies, discussion of common treatment obstacles.
Schema therapy will help you help your clients to:
- Keep clients engaged & lower drop-out rates
- Gain insight into themselves AND change
- Apply systemic, flexible & emotion-focused techniques
- Manage symptoms related to depression, anxiety, substance use, personality disorders & more clinical challenges
Program Information
Objectives
- Assess and conceptualize challenging cases in Schema terms.
- Identify Schema Modes and activating conditions in the client’s life.
- Develop a robust treatment formulation based on the linking of current problems with client’s innate makeup, early unmet needs, schemas, and coping styles.
- Help clients “make sense” out of self-defeating life patterns and emotional distress through the maintenance of a robust therapy relationship.
- Link former functional survival patterns with current life problems.
- Identify “personal” triggering conditions in the treatment room, and strategies for maintaining a sturdy, genuine, and healthy adult mode.
- Utilize strategies such as: Imagery and Schema Mode Dialogues for assessment and change.
- Recognize and bypass detached protector, overcompensating and compliant surrender modes.
- Address and evacuate internalized punitive, critical, and demanding modes.
- Confront and weaken bully and attack modes, entitled, and approval-seeking modes.
- Apply the strategy of Empathic Confrontation for bypassing avoidance, setting limits, and adaptively advocating for vulnerable modes.
- Acquire the skills for utilizing limited re-parenting and re-scripting to correct biased emotional experiences.
- Distinguish between various anger modes and identify relevant clinical implications.
- Integrate Role Play and Behavioral Pattern-Breaking.
- Integrate photos and audio flashcards into the work to fortify empathic attunement and to keep treatment alive in mid-session days.
- Develop a robust and sturdy Healthy Adult Mode through the use of realness, self-identification of therapist schemas and modes, and self-practice -- with special attention to confronting treatment challenges such as anger and avoidance.
Outline
Module 1: The Ins-and-Outs of Schema Therapy
- What’s a Schema & why they matter
- Why Schema Therapy is effective for resistant clients
- Identify developmental roadblocks & attachment ruptures
- Know the 18 maladaptive schemas
- Outcomes research – how to apply it
- Theoretical underpinnings & neurobiology of schemas
Module 2: Assessment & Therapeutic Attunement
- Reparenting through the therapeutic relationship
- Implement Schema Mode Inventory (SMI)
- Know the Modes
- Emotional states
- Constructed copying styles
- Habituated reactions
- Self-defeating patterns
- Help clients develop a narrative
- Identify conditions that activate modes
Module 3: Case Conceptualization: From Assessment to Change
- Dialogues & guided imagery for assessment
- Case conceptualization worksheet
- Assess both schemas and modes
- Understand our interaction with client’s schemas & modes
Module 4: Schema Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder
- How to form a bond
- Asking the right questions
- Common strategies for healing
- Recognize childhood modes (anger, impulsivity)
- Helping to therapeutically re-parent clients with supportive boundaries
Module 5: Schema Therapy for Narcissistic Personality Disorder & Traits
- How maladaptive schemas present in therapy & clients’ lives
- How to confront clients when you’re triggered
- Recognize clients’ unmet needs while setting limits
- Explore clients’ performance-based intimacy
- Understand clients & hold them accountable
- Neurobiology behind schema activation & memory recall
- Create an audio flash card
- Specific dialogues for managing challenging behaviors
Module 6: Therapists’ Self-Work
- Strategies when your schemas & modes are activated
- Create more sturdiness in your presence
- Self-reflection exercises – safe place, out of character, the affect bridge & more
- Video demonstration of therapist activation
- Examine own background and schemas
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Psychiatrists
- Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners
- Therapists
- Art Therapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Physicians
- Nurses
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
02/09/2020
Schema Therapy Strategies: Treat Hypersexual Narcissism, Trauma, Gaslighting, Shame & Attachment Wounds
It can be uncomfortable for you… but it’s essential for therapy…
When working your narcissistic clients you likely encounter shame, maladaptive coping patterns, gaslighting, hypersexual tendencies & more.
You need to get the skills to apply strategic, targeted techniques to decrease defensives, change underlying themes & challenge problematic personality traits.
Learn the skills to compassionately confront your narcissistic clients. Watch Wendy Behary, MSW, LCSW, and get strategies from Schema Therapy to help your narcissistic clients meet early unmet needs. Get techniques to work with:
- Early maladaptive schemas by applying emotion-focused techniques
- Clients’ self-demands for extraordinary performance, special entitlements, overindulgence & more
- Sexual preoccupations – pornography, cyber relationships, affairs, sadomasochism & other eroticism
YOU can improve your clients’ relationships, treat shame & heal early traumatic attachment wounds to change their lives.
Purchase now and make your toughest cases easier!
Program Information
Objectives
- Conceptualize the primary mode responsible for seeking hypersexual stimulation, i.e., understand motivational drivers behind early unmet needs.
- Appraise client’s develop and narrative related to emotional distortions (i.e., arousal fantasy).
- Construct schema therapy interventions for clients’ compensatory and detached coping modes, rigid rationalizations and defiant denial of the harmful impact on self and partners.
- Apply effective emotion-focused strategies designed to meet the primary unmet needs related to shame, failure, and unconditional love/acceptance.
Outline
Prepare for Therapy & How to Assess
- Identify hallmark signs of betrayal trauma
- Assess and explore sexual patterns & experiences
- Explore different expressions of narcissism in men & women
- What to do when the partner is the perpetrator
Treatment Strategies & Interventions
- How to break through defensiveness
- Treat sexual preoccupations – pornography, cyber-sexual relationships, affairs, sadomasochism & other eroticism
- Emotion focused strategies to correct early maladaptive schemas
- Deconstruct clients’ self-demands for extraordinary performance, special entitlements, overindulgence & more
- Help clients re-appraise devalued emotional vulnerability
Helping Clients’ Beyond the Therapy Room
- Confront clients’ bullying, critical attitudes & approval seeking modes
- Help narcissists understand how hypersexual affects their romantic partner
- Help re-establish trust
- Slow down the inner-critic
- Engage partner in treatment process
- Support partner experiencing betrayal trauma
- Undo toxic shame, resentments & regrets
Plus case studies, video demonstrations & troubleshooting therapy obstacles & more!
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Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Psychiatrists
- Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners
- Therapists
- Art Therapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Physicians
- Nurses
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
05/11/2022
Disarming the Narcissist in Couples Therapy
Is successful couples therapy even possible when one of the partners won’t admit their flaws or reflect on how their behavior impacts the other person?
In this can’t miss session, best-selling author, therapist and narcissist expert, Wendy Behary guides you through the techniques you can use to disarm these clients in couples work and give their partners the tools they need to set limits and draw the line on unacceptable behavior.
Program Information
Objectives
- Use empathic confrontation to gain leverage and maintain consistent treatment.
- Develop skills to set limits with narcissists and hold them accountable in the therapeutic environment.
- Use the therapeutic relationship to help generalize adapted behaviors from the treatment room into the narcissist’s life.
Outline
- Empathic confrontation for leverage
- Limit setting
- Accountability and meeting unmet needs
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Psychiatrists
- Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners
- Therapists
- Art Therapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Physicians
- Nurses
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
01/27/2022
Gaslighting: Recognition and Recovery for Manipulated and Controlled Clients
Gaslighting tactics leave victims questioning their reality and trapped in a web of manipulation and control. Its insidious nature makes it tough to spot. But recovery hinges on recognition. If you miss the signs, you could do all the wrong things for these clients, even mirroring the gaslighting they’ve already experienced.
View Stephanie Sarkis, PhD, therapist and best-selling author of Gaslighting: Recognize Manipulative and Emotionally Abusive People - and Break Free for this must-see session so you can identify the signs and provide the safe, trusting and supportive environment clients need.
Program Information
Objectives
- Differentiate between abusive behaviors defined as “gaslighting” and other forms of emotional abuse.
- Evaluate types of vulnerabilities that potential abusive relationships exploit.
- Use psychoeducation techniques to educate clients to identify potential abusive behavior in relationships.
Outline
- Profile of the gaslighter and the vulnerabilities they target
- Warning signs all therapists should know
- Educating clients to recognize and respond
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
- Psychiatrists
- Psychiatric Nurse Practitioners
- Therapists
- Art Therapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Physicians
- Nurses
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
01/27/2022