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Standard price: $755

Early bird student price: $605 before 23/01/2025. Email proof before registering to receive discount code.

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Trainer: Associate Professor Christopher Lee

Overview:

This workshop provides an introduction to early maladaptive schemas, how they maintain problematic behaviours and techniques for changing them. Learning outcomes include:

• Review current state of evidence on schema focused therapy including research conducted by Chris Lee

• Learn how to assess the key developmental tasks of childhood, and how these affect schema development

• Learn a range of ways to assess problematic schemas and practice these in small group exercises

• Explore the methods by which clients subtly maintain their self defeating schemas

• Learn how to challenge client’s schema maintaining strategies

• Practice emotive, interpersonal, cognitive and behavioural interventions designed to regulate emotions

• Learn experiential interventions to highlight the link between current emotions and earlier learning

• Develop practical strategies to consolidate emerging beliefs which are more adaptive

• Receive extensive background notes and client handouts

Pre-actions for this workshop

• Pre-reading: Chapter One of Schema Therapy: A Practitioner’s Guide, by Young, Klosko and Weishaar, with an emphasis on pages 1-37.

• Administer the revised Young Schema Questionnaire (YSQ-R) to yourself, and ideally also one client and score using the computer program here.