abstractthe role of sexual – self schema and body imag on women sexual function introduction: the aime of the present study is to investigate the role of sexual self-schema and body image on sexual function of married female nurses....... method: statistical population of the present study consist of all married female nurses of tehran government hospitals. from which 200 individuals were selec...

Schema Therapy is becoming an increasingly popular psychological model for working with individuals who have a variety of mental health and personality difficulties. The aim of this review is to look at the current evidence base for Schema Therapy and highlight directions for further research. A systematic search of the literature was conducted up until January 2011. All studies that had clinic...

Schema therapy (ST) is an integrative treatment approach to chronic lifelong problems with an established effectiveness for treating personality disorders. This article describes the adaptation of ST to chronic depression by reviewing the literature on the underlying risk factors to chronic depression. A model of chronic depression is presented, describing the interplay between empirically supp...

The aim of this study was to examine the determinants and effects of optimism in the process of schema-focused cognitive therapy of personality problems. The sample consisted of 35 patients with panic disorder and/or agoraphobia and DSM-IV Cluster C personality traits who participated in an 11-week residential program with one symptom-focused and one personality-focused phase. This study examin...

This paper presents a single case study, which outlines the innovative application of a new approach to working with a complex clinical case, for whom all other forms of therapy, including drug therapy, psychoanalytic therapy, hypnotism and traditional CBT interventions, had been found to be ineffective. It describes the use of Jeffrey Young’s Schema Mode Therapy in the treatment of a 47 year o...