Overall Learning Outcomes and Objectives:

Upon completion of this ISST approved accreditation training participants will be able to:

• Convey the schema approach to clients
• Identify and educate the client about their central life problems and unmet core needs
• Formulate and conceptualise complex cases in terms of schema activation (including coping styles and responses) and schema modes.
• Utilise the Young Schema Questionnaire, Young Parenting inventory, Young Compensatory Inventory & the Schema Mode Inventory
• Work meaningfully within the therapeutic relationship during both the assessment and change phases.
• Understand and apply the key components of schema therapies such as limited reparenting and empathic confrontation in order to heal schemas.
• Use chairwork and imagery experiential strategies for assessment and change
• Use mode work to bypass the detached protector mode
• Use mode work to tackle the Punitive Parent and Demanding Parent Modes
• Use mode work to identify and provide limited reparenting to the vulnerable child mode
• Know their own schemas and their influence in treatment, &  ways to respond to one’s own schema activation during the therapeutic encounter.
• Understand and utilise cognitive & behavioural components in effective treatments
• Apply pattern breaking techniques