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Posted by gazo on April 4, 2007, at 8:51:13
Just some tidbits i am finding... if anyone out there knows of sources which talk about how schema is used for things other than PD's I would love to know.
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Schema-Focused Cognitive TherapySchema-Focused Cognitive Therapy is the approach developed by Dr. Jeff Young, who originally worked closely with Dr. Aaron Beck, founder of Cognitive Therapy. While treating clients at the Center for Cognitive Therapy at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Young and his colleagues found a segment of people who had difficulty in benefiting from the standard approach. He discovered that these people typically had long-standing patterns or themes in thinking and feeling—and consequently in behaving or coping—that required a different means of intervention. Dr. Young’s attention turned to ways of helping patients to address and modify these deeper patterns or themes, also known as “schemas” or “lifetraps.”
The schemas that are targeted in treatment are enduring and self-defeating patterns that typically begin early in life. These patterns consist of negative/dysfunctional thoughts and feelings, have been repeated and elaborated upon, and pose obstacles for accomplishing one’s goals and getting one’s needs met. Some examples of schema beliefs are: “I’m unlovable,” “I’m a failure,” “People don’t care about me,” “I’m not important,” “Something bad is going to happen,” “People will leave me,” “I will never get my needs met,” “I will never be good enough,” and so on.
Although schemas are usually developed early in life (during childhood or adolescence), they can also form later, in adulthood. These schemas are perpetuated behaviorally through the coping styles of schema maintenance, schema avoidance, and schema compensation. The Schema-Focused model of treatment is designed to help the person to break these negative patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving, which are often very tenacious, and to develop healthier alternatives to replace them.
The Schema-Focused approach combines the best aspects of cognitive-behavioral, experiential, interpersonal and psychoanalytic therapies into one unified model of treatment. Schema-Focused Therapy has shown remarkable results in helping people to change patterns which they have lived with for a long time, even when other methods and efforts they have tried before have been unsuccessful.
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Posted by Scentedgarden on April 4, 2007, at 21:41:50
In reply to info on schema therapy, posted by gazo on April 4, 2007, at 8:51:13
Hi Gazo........ this will be very short and sweet... well i donno bout sweet...lol...but deffo short...hahha
just wanna say that IMO you're bang on the nail with this info babe! You're totally on the money...can't give you any more info...seem to my mind that the info you have acquired is pretty spot on...
My thoughts are with you these days even although i dont post much...i know you're there and i get a sense you're very special indeed..! Not that everyone aint special in their own way... |I just saying ... lol..... bye bye
Kindest and best regards to you (((((GAZO)))))
Sg
p.s. Thanks for the lovely to me > uRock2!!!!!!
Posted by gazo on April 5, 2007, at 8:11:55
In reply to Re: info on schema therapy .....Hi Gazo.. uRock2.!, posted by Scentedgarden on April 4, 2007, at 21:41:50
i am glad you saw the other post... i was afraid you had missed it. i wanted you to know how awesome i thought you were. i tell you what..we can have a mutual admiration society!! hahaha! That would be cool!
i have to tell you... it is really touching that you have gone out of your way to be so nice to me. You're an angel.
love you girl
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