The official ISST CA-ST training for mental health professionals
Come and learn about how schema therapy can be applied to children and adolescent clients. Schema therapy is helpful for those young clients who are struggling with a variety of issues, including trauma, anxiety, attachment difficulties and so forth. It involves not just cognitive strategies but also experiential work, involving chair dialogue work, play therapy/sand tray therapy, imagery work and parent coaching.
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The workshops look at the formation and perpetuating of maladaptive schemas against a background of age-specific developmental tasks, risk and protective temperamental factors. Relative to the children’s age, early maladaptive schemas are outlined with their typical child and adolescent appearance and coping strategies. Other topics include multi-modal diagnostic techniques (use of exploration, survey, imagery and case conceptualisation) and exploring the significance of the therapeutic relationship, psychoeducational strategies and empathetic confrontation.
Therapeutic strategies are demonstrated including working with drawings and pictures, finger and hand puppets, working with stories, metaphors, chair work, imagery, play and the use of flash cards. We will consolidate the learning with video examples, live demonstrations and role-play in groups of two or three.
Module 1
Module 2
More information or to register: Child and Adolescent (CA-ST) Schema Therapy certification workshops: modules 1 and 2 | Schema Therapy Training & Consulting
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