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...

Abstract Background A central construct in Schema Therapy (ST) is that of a schema mode, describing the current emotional-cognitive-behavioral state. Initially, 10 modes were described. Over time, with world-wide increasing and broader application ST to various disorders, additional identified, mainly based on clinical impressions. Thus, need for new, theoretically based, cross-cultural taxonom...

Abstract A first empirical study into group schema therapy in older adults with mood disorders and personality disorder (PD) features has shown that brief potential to decrease psychological distress change early maladaptive schemas (EMS). Effect sizes however were smaller than those found similar studies younger adults. Therefore, we set out adapt the treatment protocol for order enhance its f...

Personality disorders are complex mental health problems, associated with chronic dysfunction in several life domains. Adolescents suffer from these disorders as well. The present study is a naturalistic case study, investigating whether group schematherapy (GST) can be applied to adolescents with personality disorders or personality disorder traits. Four clinically referred patients were inclu...

Young has proposed a schema mode model of borderline personality disorder (BPD), hypothesizing that BPD patients tend to flip from 1 of 4 maladaptive schema modes to another. The present study is the first empirical test of this model, investigating whether these 4 modes are specific for BPD patients and whether BPD-relevant stress specifically increases one of the modes, the detached protector...

This study investigated relationships between attachment insecurity, maladaptive cognitive schemas, and various types of psychopathological symptoms in a sample of clinically referred adolescents (N = 82). A mediation model was tested in which maladaptive schemas operated as mediators in the relations between indices of attachment quality and conduct, peer, and emotional problems. Results revea...

Purpose: The main purpose of this study was to investigate the validity structural model that is composed emotion regulation, early maladaptive schemas, cognitive flexibility and rumination.Design/Methodology/Approach: This carried out with 454 students (%63.2 female, %36.8 male). data used in adopted from Personal Information Form, Young Schema Questionnaire-Short Form 3, Emotion Regulation Qu...

BACKGROUND Numerous studies have demonstrated that early maladaptive schemas, emotional dysregulation are supposed to be the defining core of borderline personality disorder. Many studies have also found a strong association between the diagnosis of borderline personality and the occurrence of suicide ideation and dissociative symptoms. OBJECTIVES The present study was designed to investigate...