WS 1: Introduction to Schema Therapy with Children, Adolescents and Parents.
In the introductory workshop, the developmental model and the maintenance of maladaptive schemas are explained against the background of age-specific developmental tasks, risk, protective and temperamental factors. In relation to childhood, the 18 schemas described by Young as well as typical child and adolescent coping strategies will be presented.
Further contents are techniques of multimodal diagnostics (use of exploration, questionnaire, imagination techniques, case conceptualization) and explanations of the importance of the therapeutic relationship, psychoeducation and empathic confrontation.
Overview therapeutic strategies will be demonstrated: Working with drawings and pictures, mode-oriented play therapy, working with stories, working with finger and hand puppets, metaphors, chair work, imagination, working on the "inner house," use of memo cards, and homework.
As an important part of the ST-KJE, parent work is outlined in an overview (schema coaching). Contents here are typical mode constellations with parents, investigation of parental schemas and modes and the concrete introduction to mode work with parents (work with chairs, drawings etc.).
Dr. Christof Loose