Could Early Intervention Reverse Symptoms of Autism? An In-Depth Look at Current Sensory, Communication, Relationship, & Behavioral Treatments CC – Susan Hamre

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• Anxiety
• Chronic Depression
• Eating Disorders
• BPD
• Substance Abuse
• Narcissism

Schema therapy is an innovative, integrated therapeutic approach, originally developed (by Dr. Jeffrey Young) as an expansion of traditional cognitive-behavioral treatments. The schema therapy approach draws from cognitive-behavioral therapy, attachment theory, psychodynamic concepts, and emotion-focused therapies. In comparison to cognitive-behavioral therapy, schema therapy emphasizes lifelong patterns, affective change techniques, and the therapy relationship, with special emphasis on limited and adaptive re-parenting.

Schema therapy is particularly well suited for difficult, resistant clients with entrenched, chronic psychological challenges, including personality disorders (such as BPD and Narcissism), eating disorders, intractable relationship problems, and criminal offenders. It is also effective for relapse prevention in depression, anxiety, and substance abuse.

The results of a major comparative outcome study have shown schema therapy to be highly effective with a large percentage of outpatients with Borderline Personality Disorder, with a low dropout rate. Clients who have spent years gaining valuable insight with psychodynamic treatments, but who are frustrated by their lack of progress, often respond well to the active, systematic, flexible, and depth-oriented schema approach.

This workshop will include a combination of teaching methods, including lectures, handouts, videotapes of master schema therapists, live demonstrations, question-and-answer periods, group discussion, assessment and change strategies practice exercises, discussion of obstacles in treatment including therapist’s own schemas, and small group exercises.

1. Illustrate how to assess and conceptualize challenging cases in Schema terms.
2. Discuss Schema Modes and activating conditions, individually and in their primary relationships.
3. Develop a robust treatment formulation based on the linking of current problems with client’s innate makeup, early unmet needs, schemas, and coping styles.
4. Identify strategies for maintaining a sturdy, genuine, and healthy adult mode and model within the therapeutic setting.
5. Demonstrate how to apply strategies such as: Imagery, Mode Dialogues, Empathic Confrontation, Bypassing Avoidance, Setting Limits, Adaptive (limited) Re-Parenting Stance and Behavioral Pattern-Breaking.
6. Evaluate the adaptive value of coping styles by listing the pros and cons of self-defeating habituated modes.
7. Incorporate visual and audio aids into therapy to fortify empathic attunement.
8. Explain how to implement the Inventories: The YSQ (Young Schema Questionnaire), The YPI (Young Parenting Inventory), and the SMI (Schema Mode Inventory).
9. Outline how to bypass “detached protector” modes to access necessary emotions in clients.
10. Differentiate the Anger Modes and their treatment implications.
11. Practice specific schema mode profiles and evidence-based treatment strategies for Borderline Personality Disorder and Narcissistic Personality Disorder.
12. Identify the implications of early maladaptive schemas and self-defeating coping styles on significant others in relationships and partner selection.

Schema Theory

• Defined, Outcome Research, Designed for Personality Disorders, Chronic, and Rigid Symptom Problems

Schema Clusters

• Developmental Domains and Attachment Ruptures

18 Early Maladaptive Schemas

• Traits Derived from Unmet Needs and Temperament

Therapy Relationship

• Self-Disclosure
• Empathy
• Genuineness

Demonstrations & Group Exercises

Limited Re-Parenting / Meeting Unmet Needs

• Therapist’s Posture, Gesture, Language, Flexibility
• Empathic Confrontation and Limit Setting

Emotion-Focused Strategies

• Imagery
• Dialogues

Cognitive Strategies:

• Evidence For / Against Schemas, Dialogues

Behavioral Strategies / Breaking Self-Defeating Patterns

• Role-Plays
• Mindful Awareness
• Self-Regulating Skills

Role Play with Practice Exercises

Introduction to Schema Modes

• Innate Emotional States
• Constructed Coping Styles
• Habituated Reactions
• Self-Defeating Behavioral Patterns

Schema Modes (Continued)

• Self-Disclosure
• Empathy

Case Conceptualization With Modes

• Hypotheses and Detailing the Client in Schema Terms

Advanced Demonstrations & Group Exercises

BPD – Mode Profile (Overview)

NPD – Mode Profile (Overview)

Specific Styles and Strategies – Using Empathic Confrontation

• Implicit Assumptions
• Benefit of the Doubt
• Preemptive Measures

Bypassing Detached Protector Modes

• Use of Imagery and Mode Dialogue

Anger Modes

• Angry Child Mode
• Bully Mode
• Defiantly Avoidant Mode
  • Linking Anger vs. Setting Limits: When? Why?

Advanced Role Play

Therapist’s Schema Activation and Self-Regulation Strategies

• Sturdy and Real in the Treatment Chair