Creative Methods in Schema Therapy

Creative Methods in Schema Therapy captures current trends and developments in Schema Therapy in rich clinical detail, with a vividness that inspires and equips the reader to integrate these new ways of working directly into their practice. It begins with creative adaptations to assessment and formulation, including the integration of body methods to promote engagement and to bring about early emotional change. Other chapters introduce innovative methods to lift a formulation off the page and it goes on to bring to life new developments across all aspects of the ST change repertoire, including limited reparenting, imagery, trauma processing, chair work, the therapy relationship, empathic confrontation and endings. For the specialist, there are chapters on working with forensic modes, eating disorders and couples work. Finally, the book includes chapters on the integration of key principles and techniques from Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, Emotion Focused Therapy and Compassionate Mind work into a core schema model. The book will appeal not only to full-fledged schema therapists, but also to junior therapists and therapists from other modalities who are willing to enhance their ways of working.

Gillian Heath is a Clinical Psychologist and Co-Director of Schema Therapy Associates Training Programme. She has co-authored a number of highly regarded Schema Therapy resources, including the Schema Therapy Toolkit, an online video training tool demonstrating core and advanced Schema Therapy techniques. Helen Startup is Consultant Clinical Psychologist and joint Head of Psychology for the Sussex Partnership NHS Eating Disorders Service. She is also an honorary Senior Lecturer with Sussex University and Co-Directs Schema Therapy School, UK.

An Introduction to Schema Therapy: Origins, Overview, Research Status and Future Directions; Part I: Assessment, Formulation and Core Needs; 1: Assessment and Formulation in Schema Therapy; 2: Experiential Techniques at Assessment; 3: Somatic perspective in schema therapy - the role of the body in mode awareness and transformation; 4: Understanding and Meeting Core Emotional Needs; Part II: Creative Methods using Imagery; 5: Core Principles of Imagery; 6: Imagery Rescripting for Childhood Memories; 7: Working with Trauma Memories and Complex; 8: Current Life Imagery; Part III: Creative Methods using Chair Work, Mode Dialogues and Play; 9: Creative Use of Mode dialogues with the Vulnerable Child and Dysfunctional Critic Modes; 10: Spontaneity and Play in Schema Therapy; 11: Creative Methods with Coping Modes and Chair Work; 12: Bridging the Gap between Forensic and General Clinical Practice: Working in the "here and now" with difficult schema modes; 13: Schema Therapy for Couples: Interventions to Promote Secure Connections; Part IV: Empathic Confrontation and the Therapy Relationship; 14: The Art of Empathic Confrontation and Limit-Setting; 15: Authenticity and Personal Openness in the Therapy Relationship; 16: Therapist Schema Activation and Self Care; Part V: Developing Healthy Adult and Endings in Schema Therapy; 17: Developing A Compassionate Mind to Strengthen the Healthy Adult; 18: Building the Healthy Adult in Eating Disorders: A Schema Mode and Emotion Focused Therapy Approach for Anorexia Nervosa; 19: Brief Work - Schema Informed CBT; 20: Endings and the Therapy Relationship