Contextual Schema Therapy

"This cutting-edge guide provides a comprehensive road map for understanding and implementing schema therapy as a truly integrative and dynamic therapeutic model. The reader is taken on a journey that interweaves conceptual underpinnings with cutting-edge theoretical advances, contextualizing it within the framework of second and third wave psychotherapy approaches. This book connects the dots of the schema therapy model. Its descriptions bring the powerful schema therapy techniques to life, while providing a clear pathway to guide the overarching process. This book is an indispensable text that will appeal to experienced clinicians, as well as those who are simply curious to learn more about this approach." --Susan Simpson, DClinPsych, NHS Lothian, Scotland; department of psychology, University of South Australia--Susan Simpson, DClinPsych "This book encompasses all aspects of schema therapy, from the theoretical underpinnings and case conceptualization to the emotion-focused, cognitive and behavioral techniques. In a clear, structured manner, practical suggestions are offered to cope with the challenging situations therapists face in their clinical practice. This book can be considered an essential element in the training to become a schema therapist. I enjoyed the way complex phenomena in therapy are explained with the use of metaphors and striking illustrations. In a similar transparent way, schema-triggering moments in session are discussed, and many different strategies are offered to deal with them. This book bridges the gap between theory and practice, and reflects the current status of schema therapy." --Remco van de Wijngaart, vice president of the International Society of Schema Therapy; senior schema therapy trainer and supervisor--Remco van de Wijngaart "Therapists today may find themselves asking how they can fit together the plethora of psychological concepts that bombard them from many directions. Schema therapists may ask whether schema therapy by itself is enough, or whether they need other therapy approaches too. The authors of Contextual Schema Therapy show how important concepts that are well articulated within other approaches--such as mentalization, mindfulness, acceptance, metacognition, and human values--can be integrated into the basic schema therapy model. Indeed, many of them are already implicit in it. In addition to showing the integrative power of the schema therapy model, this book offers a fresh and readable account of its central ideas and rich clinical examples of their application, all well-grounded in the current academic and clinical literature." --David Edwards, department of psychology, Rhodes University; department of psychiatry, University of Cape Town; clinical psychologist; certified schema therapist; president, International Society of Schema Therapy--David Edwards "Schema therapy is the most integrative psychotherapy model of our time, and has a rapidly accelerating literature. This latest volume explains the entire schema therapy model, presupposing no prior knowledge, then, pushes the model forward. It adds a new 'Case Conceptualization Form, ' an expanded theoretical framework, insights from 'third wave' and 'contextual' psychotherapies, and new and innovative applications of schema therapy techniques (particularly emotive techniques such as guided imagery and chair work). It is scholarly, clear, theoretically grounded, and full of clinical examples. Simply put, you will find this book extremely useful--regardless of your theoretical orientation." --Lawrence P. Riso, PhD, professor of clinical psychology, American School of Professional Psychology, Northern Virginia--Lawrence P. Riso, PhD "Building on the foundation of schema therapy as laid by Jeffrey Young, the authors bring schema therapy into the third wave of therapies; in context and the actual effects. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is interweaved throughout the bo

Eckhard Roediger (Author) Eckhard Roediger, MD, is director of the Frankfurt Schema Therapy Institute, which was established in Germany. He is former president of the International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST) and board a member since its foundation in 2008. He has been a schema therapy trainer and supervisor since 2008, and is author of numerous books, book chapters, and articles about schema therapy in German. Bruce A. Stevens (Author) Bruce A. Stevens, PhD, is the current Wicking Chair of Aging and Practical Theology at Charles Sturt University, Canberra, Australia. He is a clinical and forensic psychologist with over twenty years of private practice experience. He has written several books-including two other books on schema therapy-and he has advanced accreditation in schema therapy for both individuals and couples. Robert Brockman (Author) Robert Brockman, DClinPsy, is a lecturer and psychology clinic supervisor on the Clinical Psychology Masters program at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (UTS). He is accredited by the International Society for Schema Therapy (ISST) as a schema therapist, supervisor, and trainer, and regularly runs schema therapy trainings nationally and internationally. Brockman has a major clinical and research interests in the formulation and treatment of complex presentations that prove difficult to treat via standard evidence-based protocols. He is currently engaged in clinical research focused on extending the schema model into novel populations (e.g., generalized anxiety disorder, eating disorders, psychosis, HIV sufferers, problem gamblers, and forensic patients).