Schema Therapy in Adolescence Emerging Adulthood (16-25y)

Christof Loose, Praxis for Psychotherapy & Centre for Schema Therapy Dusseldorf, Germany
Assisted by: Andrea Loose, Centre for Schema Therapy Dusseldorf, Germany

This Workshop is Now Sold Out

Date: March 11 & 12 2024
Venue: Mounts Bay Sailing Club, Australia 2 Drive Crawley (please note new Venue)

Price: $599 (including lunch and refreshments)

Target Audience: Psychotherapists and Counsellors with basic knowledge in Schema Therapy and interest in ST techniques for adolescents and young adults.

Background: Emerging adulthood is a developmental stage that typically occurs between adolescence and young adulthood, with a focus on ages 16 to 25. Within this stage five major struggles occur: identity, instability, being self-focused, feeling in-between, and new possibilities.

Schema Therapy (ST), as an integrative, evolving model for psychotherapy that combines aspects of cognitive, behavioural, psychodynamic, and gestalt models, places emphasis on the childhood origins of many psychological and developmental problems and challenges.

Goals: In this workshop, participants will learn how to enhance the therapeutic relationship, and facilitate greater openness and trust to explore and better understand the roots of problems/symptoms, in the end leading to improved motivation of behavioural modifications. At the end of the workshop participants will be able to…

- develop an age-appropriate case conceptualization, by integrating ABC model, needs, schemas, modes, and the client’s symptom,
- generate the concept of the client’s Clever & Wise-Team including resource modes and positive schemas (Treasure bag exercise)
- create a mode sketch, thus illuminating the client’s inner mode black box,
to sooth, validate, nurture, and protect the Vulnerable Child mode (VCm), enabling the client to give up old dysfunctional (immature) behavioural patterns towards the functional (more mature) alternative ones.
- make use of age-appropriate Imagery Rescripting (IR) procedures.

About the Presenter:

Christof Loose, PhD., Clinical Psychologist, Psychotherapist for Children and Adolescents (CBT), works in his own Private Practice in Dusseldorf, affiliated with the Heinrich-Heine-University, Department of Clinical Psychology, Germany 2012-2017, research activity e.g. in ST-CA (Development of Schema-Questionnaire for Children (DISC), Chair of the subcommittee Working Group in ST-CA 2013-2017, since 2013 advanced-level certified, trainer and supervisor (ISST e.V.), editor and author of ST-CA books and Video-Learning (DVD),  conducts workshops and seminars in Schema Therapy for Children, Adolescents and Parents, worldwide.