Waterstones Schema Therapy
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Price: £45.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: Designed to meet the formidable challenges of treating personality disorders and other complex difficulties, schema therapy combines proven cognitive-behavioral techniques with elements of other widely practiced therapies. This book--written by the model's developer and two of its leading practitioners--is the first major text for clinicians wishing to learn and use this popular approach. Described are innovative ways to rapidly conceptualize challenging cases, explore the client's childhood history, identify and modify self-defeating patterns, use imagery and other experiential techniques in treatment, and maximize the power of the therapeutic relationship. Including detailed protocols for treating borderline personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder, the book is illustrated with numerous clinical examples. See also Experiencing Schema Therapy from the Inside Out: A Self-Practice/Self-Reflection Workbook for Therapists, by Joan M. Farrell and Ida A. Shaw.
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Author: Ms. Caroline R. Whitla
Rating: 5
Review: I highky recommend this book. It's a breath of fresh air for treating clients with long-standing treatment resistant issues. This book is more detailed and explanatory than "Reinventing Your Life" by the same authors. It seems more honest about what the authors & colleagues think about people with personality issues and emotional dysregulation problems. The main ideas are to accept past trauma as being a "natural response" or part of being born overly emotional. No-one is to blame as the abuser etc couldn't find another way to deal with the clients hyper-emotionality as a child. The client is not to blame as they did the best they could at the time. The client then is brought to accept reality and the need for change. The client learns about their own dysfunctional beliefs, thoughts & behaviours (schemas) and begin a process of standard CBT techniques to erradicate these dysfunctions. What makes Schema Therapy different from standard CBT is the ability to help the client connect their current problems to past schema's, to externalise the schema before destroying it, thereby not giving the client the sense that the self is being destroyed. What is not clear is the difference between Complex Trauma (or Complex Traumatic Stress Disorder) and Borderline Personailty Disorder. The reader is left wandering whether they are one and the same condition. This results in a sense that perpetrators of abuse couldn't help themselves abuse the client and can walk away with impunity, while the client has to accept and "move on" with life. Certainly the book is aimed at the practitioner rather than the client. I can't help but wander why there is such a marked difference. Do the authors view their clients as of lesser value than their colleagues, as less capable of understanding and worthy of less respect? In contrast to "Re-inventing Your Life" the difference in phraseology and even the difference in the book covers, to me, betray a fundamental disrespect for the client which the authors may not be aware of. Nonetheless, the potential to help clients with this simple integrative and flexible technique is great and I would highly commend it to you.
Author: Gustavo Ruiz
Rating: 3
Review: Unlike many others, this is not, properly, a practice guide. Nonetheless is full of brief interviews with BPD clients and the authors add many tricks and tips for dealing with each session. But, i.p.o.v., lacks exercises, protocols, records, tables, and most of what chartered psychologists use with clients to up to date the treatment improvements. Regarding theory is quite a bit stodgy, while I myself find a lot more worthvalue those insights developed by Linehan and Mclean Hospital, whose books are plenty of forms, daily cards and guided practice.
