“Discover powerful new strategies to break through impasses that lead us to feel
frustrated, resentful, or defeated by difficult couples”. Friday November 5th.
“Discover powerful new strategies to break through impasses that lead us to feel frustrated, resentful, or defeated by difficult couples” 7 Reasons to Attend 1. In a recent major study, schema therapy was highly effective with some of the most difficult clients we treat, with a very low dropout rate. In our experience, because of its depth and active strategies, most couples respond very enthusiastically to the schema model. 2. Learn to work at a deeper schema level to help couples who: • don’t tell their partners what they need or how they feel, and continually feel disappointed • have difficulty maintaining passion 3. Learn the concepts of Schema Mode Work, a new advance in schema therapy to treat the most challenging couples
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4. Learn to use special questionnaires & assessment methods for complex, difficult cases. Conceptualize couples in easy-tounderstand ways that you can share with the couple, and that lead to collaborative, compassionate, and effective interventions 5. Learn emotion-focused schema therapy techniques, such as imagery, to help couples make lasting changes
Daily Agenda
Why Learn Schema Therapy for Couples?
Friday November 5th
Schema therapy expands significantly on the proven principles of cognitive-behavioral treatments. The model draws on strategies from object relations, attachment and self theories, psychodynamic therapy, conflict resolution models, and emotion-focused therapies. Schema therapy is especially well-suited to treating difficult couples with entrenched personality disorders and chronic, self-defeating relationship patterns.
8:00 - 9:00 9:00 - 10:30
10:30 - 10:45 10:45 - 12:15
6. Learn a broad range of change techniques for couples, including: schema flashcards, schema dialogues, the Young Schema Questionnaire, imagery work, limited reparenting, conflict resolution, and behavioral pattern-breaking
12:15 - 1:15 1:15 - 2:45
7. View extensive videotaped segments of actual couples to demonstrate schema strategies
2:45 - 3:00 3:00 - 4:30
FREE PACKET OF MATERIALS
All participants will receive a packet with 60-plus pages of assessment inventories and forms developed especially for schema therapy. During the Institute, you will learn to utilize these forms to assess schemas, modes, and childhood origins. You will also be entitled to make unlimited copies of these materials for your own clinical or research use. Normally, this packet, along with the right to reproduce the forms, is sold separately for a substantial fee; however, they are included at no additional cost to institute registrants.
Who Should Attend
Saturday November 6th 9:00 - 10:30
10:30 - 10:45 10:45 - 12:15
About the Institute
This institute is designed for psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses, marriage and family counselors, graduate students, and other mental health professionals who are interested in treating difficult couples, especially those with resistant characterological features. Previous training in schema therapy is not required to attend this institute. The speaker will provide an overview of the basic schema model. You can also find an introduction to schema therapy on our website, www.schematherapy.com, or in the books described later in the brochure.
Dr. Jeffrey Young will present a state-ofthe art treatment that can be adapted for a broad range of challenging couples cases. After lecturing throughout the United States, Europe, Canada, Australia, China, New Zealand, and South America, Dr. Young will be teaching this Institute on couples for the first time in New York City. This is a rare opportunity to learn the schema approach for couples from an award-winning presenter and the founder of schema therapy.
“Young et al. have developed an innovative, rich, and intuitively healing approach to therapy based on years of clinical experience and research. Schema therapy incorporates wisdom from a variety of approaches to bring fresh new perspectives to traditional cognitive therapy.” -David H. Barlow, Ph.D., Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Department of Psychology, Boston University
Registration Schema Theory: Key terms and concepts; group imagery exercise to identify the participants’ own schemas and link them to relationships; reviewing the 18 early maladaptive schemas Break Adapting the Schema Model to Couples: Defining healthy & unhealthy relationships; partner selection & schema chemistry; schema clashes; schema modes in relationships; schema-focused treatment goals; 6 phases of schema couples work Lunch Break (On Your Own) Schema Assessment & Education I: Identifying chief complaints; educating partners about the schema model; recognizing prototypical schema clashes; administering & interpreting schema inventories; labeling each partner’s schemas & modes Break Schema Assessment & Education II: Uncovering childhood wounds & selfdefeating relationship patterns through imagery; examining themes typical of personality disorders (e.g., borderline, narcissistic, obsessive-compulsive); linking early childhood patterns to schema clashes in the couples
12:15 - 1:15 1:15 - 2:45
2:45 - 3:00 3:00 - 4:30
Schema Change Techniques: Flashcards; schema dialogues; mindfulness of schema activation; meeting the core needs of each partner; distinguishing realistic from schema-driven reactions & expectations; strengthening the Healthy Adult mode Break De-escalating Schema Clashes: Teaching cues to help partners recognize “schema attacks”; triggering childhood memories to evoke vulnerability; moving from angry & detached modes to healthy, vulnerable modes; mutual reparenting; behavioral rehearsal to break schema cycles; assigning homework to practice de-escalating clashes Lunch (On Your Own) Special Therapeutic Issues from a Schema Perspective: Dealing with affairs; deciding whether to stay together or separate; separation counseling; confidentiality issues; working with the therapist’s own schemas Break Schema Work with Specific Client Groups: Working with narcissistic partners within the therapeutic relationship; reparenting borderline and emotionally fragile partners; addressing early trauma; “partner opposites” (e.g., the obsessive-compulsive / impulsive couple); group case supervision for participants’ own cases
“The work of Jeffrey E. Young and his colleagues represents both a major contribution to the evolution of cognitive and cognitive-behavioral therapy and an important step toward enhancing the prospects for integrating cognitive therapy with other approaches, particularly psychoanalysis.” -Paul L. Wachtel, Ph.D., Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, City College, City University of New York
Couples may initially be drawn to each other by “schema chemistry,” a heightened attraction often anchored in deep-seated issues, and outside of each other’s awareness. However, when schemas are activated and coping modes take over, couples experience conflict and decreased relationship satisfaction. Schema therapy helps couples learn strategies to heal their partners’ schemas, as well as their own, through a combination of individual and conjoint therapy sessions. Through schema therapy, “schema clashes” – the activation of schemas, with ruptures in the partners’ connection – become infrequent and short-lived, while couples build a reservoir of positive, healing experiences together. Many clients who have spent years gaining valuable insight, but who are frustrated by their lack of progress in other types of psychotherapy, respond well to schema therapy’s direct and structured approach. Therapists take an active role in sessions to help couples foster real and enduring change in their lives.
About the Presenter Jeffrey Young, Ph.D., is the Director of the Cognitive Therapy Centers of New York and Connecticut, as well as the Schema Therapy Institute. He also serves on the faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University. Dr. Young is the founder of Schema Therapy, and is a Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy. Dr. Young has lectured on cognitive and schema therapies internationally for 24 years, and consistently receives outstanding evaluations internationally for his teaching skills, including the prestigious NEEI Mental Health Educator of the Year award in 2003. He has trained thousands of mental health professionals, and is widely acclaimed for his outstanding teaching skills. Dr. Young has also published extensively on both schema and cognitive therapies, including: “Schema Therapy: A Practitioner’s Guide,” written for mental health professionals, and “Reinventing Your Life,” a best-selling self-help book for clients.
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