Schema Therapy 2 - Beyond the Basics

This workshops builds on the workshop Schema Therapy 1 - Attachment, Relationships and Emotional Needs: Applying Schema Therapy. This workshop looks at key ideas in more depths and examines how they can be applied to treat common presenting conditions such as depression, anxiety, anger and relationship problems.  Attendance at Schema Therapy 1 is recommended but not essential. You can take the online course on Schema therapy if you did not attend that workshop. You can enrol by clicking here.

Schema therapy (ST) is an integrative approach that brings together cognitive behavioral therapy, attachment and object relations theories. It was created by by Jeff Young in 1990 and has been developed and updated in several ways since then. Schema therapy is considered an effective way of conceptualizing and treating a wide range of adult emotional issues include personality difficulties. Some of the distinguishing features of schema therapy.

• more emphasis upon the development of current issues in childhood.
• more emphasis on the power of the therapist–client relationship
• more emphasis on understanding their clients' core emotional needs and how to meet those those needs adaptively in relationships.
• more emphasis on processing memories of negative childhood experiences, making use of experiential techniques to change related negative emotions.

In this advanced workshop we will look at the more complex application of practical frameworks and techniques that are used in Schema Therapy and how they can be used with a wider range of clients.

Key Topics (indicative)

1. Depression and Schema Therapy
2. Anxiety and Schema Therapy
3. Anger and Schema Therapy
4. Adult Romantic Relationships and Schema Therapy
5. The impact of the therapist's schema

There will be a refresher on Key Ideas of Schema Therapy in the course from Part 1.

Resources

A full set of slides with extensive clickable links to free online resources, is sent free to all delegates after the event. This also includes references to key sources.

CPD

A CPD Certificate of Attendance confirming 2 hours skills CPD is available to all delegates who attend.

Facilitator

Professor Patrick McGhee is a CBT therapist, psychologist and UK National Teaching Fellow. Educated at the universities of Glasgow and Oxford, he has completed CPD programmes at Harvard Business School and Ashridge. In 2017 he was a Visiting Fellow/Scholar at the universities of Cornell, Yale and MIT in the USA. He has taught, researched or practised in psychology and therapy for 30 years. His first post was a Research Fellow in Psychiatry and Psychology at St George's Hospital Medical School, University of London. He is the author of Thinking Psychologically (Palgrave) and co-editor of Accounting for Relationships (Methuen). He is an occasional columnist for the Guardian, the BBC and the Times Higher. He currently works in private practice in Greater Manchester and Lancashire. He has full accreditation from the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies.