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Schema Therapy: A Practitioner's Guide

Schema Therapy: A Practitioner's Guide
By Jeffrey E. Young PhD, Janet S. Klosko Phd, Marjorie E. Weishaar Phd

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Designed to meet the formidable challenges of treating personality disorders and other complex difficulties, schema therapy combines proven cognitive-behavioral techniques with elements of other widely practiced therapies. This book--written by the model's developer and two of its leading practitioners--is the first major text for clinicians wishing to learn and use this popular approach. Described are innovative ways to rapidly conceptualize challenging cases, explore the client's childhood history, identify and modify self-defeating patterns, use imagery and other experiential techniques in treatment, and maximize the power of the therapeutic relationship. Including detailed protocols for treating borderline personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder, the book is illustrated with numerous clinical examples.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #36622 in Books
  • Published on: 2006-11-03
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Paperback
  • 436 pages

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"The book is an exposition of schema therapy from A to Z. It covers theoretical concepts and provides detailed strategies for addressing particular schemas. It also includes chapters dealing with borderline personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder. Because it is easy to read and provides nice clinical examples, it gives cognitive-behavioral therapists more strategies in dealing with refractory patients....This is an excellent book....4 Stars!"--Doody's Electronic Journal
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"Schema therapy represents a brilliant addition to the therapist's armamentarium of techniques. Building on cognitive therapy, the approach provides a means for dealing with many of the problems people face in their daily lives. For example, someone with a social isolation/alienation schema will believe that he or she is isolated from others, but often will act in ways to create or exacerbate this isolation. A complete guide to the use of schema therapy, this book shows how to help clients recognize and overcome such maladaptive patterns. I very highly recommend it."--Robert J. Sternberg, PhD, Department of Psychology, Yale University

"This volume demonstrates in a skillful, highly readable fashion how the standard cognitive therapy approaches to Axis 1 disorders can be expanded and modified to treat personality disorders. Working within a comprehensive cognitive model, the authors draw on a variety of strategies to address the specific problems in this population: rigid, lifelong maladaptive characterological patterns; chronic interpersonal difficulties; and transference reactions. The book shows how to attenuate the powerful beliefs underlying these patterns through exploratory and experiential strategies. Highly recommended for all therapists engaged in treating patients with these very difficult personality problems."--Aaron T. Beck, MD, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania

"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. This book presents schema therapy in clear and generous detail and offers much to the experienced practitioner and the student. A highly valuable and worthwhile contribution."--Paul L. Wachtel, PhD, Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology, City College, City University of New York

"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. In this book, clinicians will find up-to-the-minute, empirically supported approaches to treating such difficult problems as narcissistic and borderline personality disorders. Strategies and procedures are laid out in a clear and compelling manner, including invaluable advice on implementation. All clinicians wishing to incorporate schema-based cognitive approaches into their practices will find this book an invaluable resource and a pleasure to read."--David H. Barlow, PhD, Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders, Department of Psychology, Boston University
"In expanding the traditional cognitive model to include an emphasis on the therapeutic relationship and on lifelong patterns of maladaptive behavior, Young et al. have created a place for cognitive-behavioral therapy in treating even the most severe characterological disorders. The combination of solid empirical research; detailed, specific techniques; and clear, concise recommendations for therapy help therapists at every level better conceptualize and treat challenging cases. I have found Schema Therapy to be an invaluable text for graduate courses in clinical interventions and an excellent resource for students wishing to improve their skills in clinical work."--Mary Armsworth, EdD, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Houston


"This is a clearly written text, and the therapeutic techniques are presented in a coherent way. Within each chapter, concepts and techniques are first introduced briefly, then discussed in detail, and summarized at the end. The book will be useful for cognitive-behaviour therapists working with a range of disorders, and invaluable for those working with patients with more chronic problems and personality disorders."--Behavioral & Cognitive Psychotherapy

"Useful verbatim examples are given for treatment of several types of patients....a very good book, and I highly recommend it to both novice and veteran therapists."--Psychiatric Times

"...offers an exciting and innovative treatment approach for psychotherapists who work with seriously character disordered patients....The authors have put together a rich and highly informative text that outlines the principles of the schema model, schema assessment and evaluation, and all the major components of schema therapy....All chapters are filled with extensive case material that illustrates in great depth the application of the schema approach to patient treatment. The richness of the clinical material is enough to give practitioners a basic understanding of how to apply schema therapy, even without extensive training....the book provides an insightful, innovative, and thorough treatment approach to personality pathology."--Journal of Psychosomatic Research

"...a comprehensive treatment manual that provides an authoritative conceptual overview and step-by-step guidelines for assessment and treatment....This book is recommended for purchase by medical libraries as well as libraries that support upper level undergraduate and graduate students in mental health, and mental health practitioners."--E-Streams

"The book is an exposition of schema therapy from A to Z. It covers theoretical concepts and provides detailed strategies for addressing particular schemas. It also includes chapters dealing with borderline personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder. Because it is easy to read and provides nice clinical examples, it gives cognitive-behavioral therapists more strategies in dealing with refractory patients....This is an excellent book....4 Stars!"--Doody's Electronic Journal

"An excellent guide for working with patients with Axis II conditions. It is an assimilative integration...of the best of the psychoanalytic and gestalt-experiential thinking into a sophisticated cognitive-behavioral structure. Young and his collaborators have been working on this amalgam for more than 15 years, and this volume is a superb presentation of the whole cloth that they have woven from extensive clinical experience, some outcome studies, and good integrative thinking....The book provides many examples of excellent therapeutic dialogue and exercises....This is a superb volume, reflecting many years of astute clinical and theoretical work by very able clinicians who have translated from many tongues and assembled a therapeutic masterwork. It should appeal to psychotherapy integrationists from many traditions."--Psychotherapy Research
 
"A thought giving book and is recommended for the clinician as well as the researcher."--Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Book Reviews
 
"This is an important and valuable book. It develops a model of treatment for challenging populations, typically underserved by traditional CBT. It may well become a 'necessary reading' text for advanced therapy courses in clinical psychology training programs. It is important reading for psychologists working with patients with characterological problems or, who simply wish for techniques to use when patients become 'stuck' and unresponsive to CBT."--Child and Family Behavior Therapy

About the Author

Jeffrey E. Young, PhD, is on the faculty in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University. He is the Founder and Director of the Cognitive Therapy Centers of New York and Connecticut, and the Schema Therapy Institute in New York City.

Janet S. Klosko, PhD, Codirector of the Cognitive Therapy Center of Long Island, in Great Neck, New York, is senior psychologist at the Schema Therapy Institute and at Woodstock Women's Health in Woodstock, New York.

Marjorie E. Weishaar, PhD, is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University Medical School, where she teaches cognitive therapy to psychiatry residents and to psychology interns and postdoctoral fellows. She also maintains a private practice in Providence, Rhode Island.

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Excellent presentation of an effective therapy5
As a psychologist who has utilized Schema Therapy for several years I found that this work far surpassed my expectations.

Schema Therapy, which originally evolved from cognitive therapy, integrates theory and technques from various fields, including behavior therapy, cognitive therapy, gestalt therapy and object relations. This theoretical synthesis is presented in a remarkably straightforward manner that even the beginning therapist will find easy to follow and utilize.

The book is highly readable and loaded with specific clinical interventions. The last two chapters, on treating borderlines and narcissists, are worth the price of the book alone.

I'd recommend this book to any therapist from any orientation. Cognitive and behavior therapists will find the focus on early childhood experience and deeper emotions to be be a useful extension of knowledge presented in a logical down to earth manner. Therapists from more traditional backgrounds will benefit from this exposure to an effective treatment which has systematic recommendations for treating long term problems.

Thought provoking development in integrative therapy5
As a psychodynamically trained therapist, I have sensed for many years that a 'pure' approach to therapy has severe limitations. This led me to get further training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and to use this with my clients - to some good effect. However, I felt uncomfortable using this 'either, or' approach to therapy (either psychodynamic OR CBT) and have been trying for a long time to work out a way of integrating these two approaches in my practice.

So reading Jeffrey Young's book is like reading something that I should have written myself! I keep thinking, 'Oh yes, that's just what I find too!', and 'Hey, that's MY idea!'. In other words, I find this an eminently practical and useful outline of a model of therapy that more or less perfectly describes my own approach to working with clients. What is useful to me in particular are the 18 maladaptive schemas, and the corresponding system of coping with them. THe questionnaires (available from www.schematherapy.com) which can help clients to identify their own particular combination of problem schemas and coping styles forms an excellent basis for rich, rewarding, collaborative therapy.

I am full of admiration for the three authors who produced this volume. I look forward to attending some of the workshops when they come my way in the UK. A thouroughly recommended read.

Pretty Good5
This book is fantastic! It really explains why some people end up with personality disorders and how to go about having a person see their dysfunctional patterns. The book is well structured with good outlines of the various schemata. However, after about page 70, it gets a bit repetitive. The case illustrations are helpful, though I couldn't help noticing how neatly well packaged they were. Schema therapy definitely provides an excellent framework within which to conceptualize personality disorders. Apparently it is more helpful to borderline personality disorder than psychodynamic therapy. So,in summary, while I really appreciated how personality disorders were conceptualized, I found the book a bit repetitive... For a more 'academic' approach, you might want to try the Handbook of Personality Disorders.