Early bird price: $775. Use code 03042025 at checkout, up to three weeks prior to workshop.
Standard price: $825
Student (full-time) price: $675. Email proof before registering to receive discount code.
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
Workshop preparation
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.