Schema Therapy: Proven Techniques to Treat Your Most Challenging and Resistant Clients by Wendy T. Behary

In this in-depth online course, Wendy Behary will guide you step-by-step through the schema approach to fully prepare you for implementation in your practice.

Schema Theory
— How to assess and conceptualize some of the most challenging cases in Schema terms.
— Schema Modes and activating conditions, individually and in their primary relationships.
— Treatment formulation based on the linkage of current problems with a client’s innate makeup, early unmet needs, schemas, and coping styles.

You’ll learn to implement Schema Inventories for patient assessment:
— The YSQ (Young Schema Questionnaire)
— The YPI (Young Parenting Inventory)
— The SMI (Schema Mode Inventory)

Through advanced demonstrations and case conceptualizations, you’ll learn to apply a variety of emotion-focused, cognitive, and behavioral strategies to break self-defeating patterns including:
— Imagery
— Mode Dialogues
— Empathic Confrontation
— Bypassing Avoidance
— Setting Limits
— Adaptive (limited) Re-Parenting Stance
— Behavioral Pattern-Breaking

You’ll practice specific schema mode profiles, including the anger modes, and learn to effectively bypass “detached protector” modes to access necessary emotions for healing and change.

Therapist schema activation and self-regulation strategies for maintaining a sturdy, genuine, and healthy adult mode and model are also incorporated into this intensive training!

About Wendy Behary, MSW, LCSW:

Wendy T. Behary, MSW, LCSW, is the founder and director of The Cognitive Therapy Center of New Jersey and The New Jersey Institute for Schema Therapy. She has been treating clients, training professionals and supervising psychotherapists for more than 20 years. Wendy was on the faculty of the Cognitive Therapy Center and Schema Therapy Institute of New York (until merging in 2012 with the NJ Institute), where she trained and worked with Dr. Jeffrey Young since 1989. She is a distinguished founding fellow and consulting supervisor for The Academy of Cognitive Therapy (Aaron T. Beck Institute). Wendy served as the president of the Executive Board of the International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST) from 2010-2014, and is currently the chair of the Brainstorming Sub-Committee for the ISST. She also serves on the Board of Directors for the Personality Disorders Awareness Network (PDAN).

Wendy Behary has co-authored several chapters and articles on Schema Therapy and Cognitive Therapy. She is the author of Disarming the Narcissist…Surviving and Thriving with the Self-Absorbed (New Harbinger, 2008 and 2013). She lectures both nationally and internationally to professional and general audiences on schema therapy, and the subject of narcissism, relationships, and dealing with difficult people.