This paper describes the use of Group Schema Therapy for Eating Disorders (ST-E-g) in a case series of eight participants with chronic eating disorders and high levels of co-morbidity. Treatment was comprised of 20 sessions which included cognitive, experiential, and interpersonal strategies, with an emphasis on behavioral change. Specific schema-based strategies focused on bodily felt-sense an...

This article presents the Schema Therapy (Young, Klosko, & Weishaar, 2003) approach to the treatment of borderline personality disorder. Schema therapy draws on the cognitive-behavioral, attachment, psychodynamic, and emotion-focused traditions and conceptualizes patients who have borderline personality disorder as being under the sway of five modes or aspects of the self. The goal of the thera...

OBJECTIVES Maladaptive schemas are stable cognitive working models of the world, learnt early in life, that interfere with effective functioning and underlie chronic mental illness. A major challenge for cognitive therapy has been how to modify schemas when they are so enduring and stable. We propose that because maladaptive schemas are formed through social experiences (typically abusive or ne...

This conceptual paper presents the Healthy Adult mode in Schema Therapy using octopus metaphor. As a relatively new form of integrative psychotherapy, has recent times become increasingly popular among psychotherapists, as preferred transdiagnostic treatment approach. Therapy, however, is not free from theoretical criticisms and practical challenges. The aim this article twofold. First, to offe...

1 CHAPTER 1: AN OVERVIEW OF THE THESIS 2-8 1.1. The Origins of Schema Therapy 1.2. Early Maladaptive Schemas 1.3. Schema Domains 1.4. Schema Perpetuation 1.5. The Schema Mode Concept 1.6. Schema Modes and the Present Doctoral Thesis 2 3 4 5 6 8 PART I: SYSTEMATIC REVIEW 9-52 CHAPTER 2: SYSTEMATIC REVIEW JOURNAL ARTICLE 10-52 ABSTRACT INTRODUCTION METHOD RESULTS DISCUSSION REFERENCES 12 13 16 25...

Borderline personality disorder is a serious psychiatric disorder for which the effectiveness of the current pharmacotherapeutical and psychotherapeutic approaches has shown to be limited. In the last decades, schema therapy has increased in popularity as a treatment of borderline personality disorder; however, systematic evaluation of both effectiveness and empirical evidence for the theoretic...