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Mastering Microskills in Schema Therapy through Deliberate Practice (7 x 1 hour 50 mins)


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7 x 1 hour 50 min sessions (9- 10.50am UK time) covering 12 skills (see below). Suitable for anyone who has attended foundational Schema Therapy training, from new learners to experienced schema therapists, as exercises are adapted to individuals’ skill and confidence levels. See demonstrations, practise skills, obtain feedback and receive expert coaching: experience Deliberate Practice in Schema Therapy!

NOTE: This book (Kindle or paperback) must be purchased in order to participate in this training: Deliberate Practice in Schema Therapy (Essentials of Deliberate Practice), Behary et al., 2023. 

  • Mondays 28th Oct, 4th, 18th & 25th Nov, 2nd 9th & 16th Dec 2024; 1 hour 50 mins per session

  • 9 - 10.50am UK time

  • Europe / Africa: 10 - 11.50am or 11am - 12.50pm (depending on country)

    Asia-Pacific: 12 noon - 1.50pm through to 8 - 9.50pm (depending on country)

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  • Understanding and attunement

  • Supporting and strengthening the healthy adult mode

  • Schema education: beginning to understand current problems in schema therapy terms

  • Linking unmet needs, schema, and presenting problem

  • Education about maladaptive schema modes

  • Recognizing the mode shifts of the maladaptive coping modes

  • Identifying the presence of the demanding/ punitive inner critic mode

  • Limited reparenting for the demanding/ punitive inner critic mode

  •  Identifying the presence of the angry and vulnerable child modes

  • Limited reparenting for the angry and vulnerable child modes

  • Limited reparenting for the maladaptive coping modes: empathic confrontation

  • Implementing behavioural pattern breaking through homework assignments