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SCHEMA THERAPY

In schema therapy, the goal of the treatment is to weaken the early maladaptive schemas as much as possible and build up the person’shealthy side. These schemas are extremely stable and enduring; they develop during childhood and are elaborated throughout the person’s life. Schema therapy incorporates cognitive, behavioral, interpersonal and experiential techniques in order to work on these schemas.


The difficult situations where the schema therapy can be helpful have the following features:

  • The symptoms are enduring and continuous; do not respond to therapy and replicate.
  • The problem is indeterminate but enduring.
  • There are problems on enduring relationships.
  • They have extreme avoidance, rigid thinking and behavior patterns.
  • They have an extremely needy, insistent and boastful attitude.

Jeffrey Young, who investigated the problems on thought and emotions in these “difficult” people, found that these thoughts and feelings can be categorized and named them as “schema”. The researches proved the existence of 18 schemas.

According to schema therapy, the schemas are composed of memories, bodily sensations, feelings and cognitions. They are about the relationships between the person himself and the others. In the period of childhood and adolescence, they evolve by the frustration of basic needs and develop through person’s life. Schemas can cause intense feelings as well as some damaging results both for the individual and the people around him. Schemas can hinder independence, attachment and opening oneself. They are very deep structures within the psychic structure. They persist once they are formed and it is hard to change them with short-term techniques.


In schema therapy, the emphasis is on

  • The therapy relationship
  • Affective state
  • Coping strategies
  • The basic life events
  • The childhood experiences and developmental stages

Schema therapy can help people understand and change lon-term life patterns. The therapy consists of identifying early maladaptive schemas and systematically confronting and challenging them.

 

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About Personel

“Personal” is a service used by the member therapists and their clients. It can be reached only by those with whom a face to face interview has been conducted.

The purpose of PERSONAL is to increase and ease the communication between therapists and their clients. Clients log in to PERSONAL to fill in their questionnaires, to follow the assignments from their sessions, and to complete their assignments online.

The applications in PERSONAL have been designed by integrating the applications of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to internet environment. These applications have not been proven to be superior to those applied out of the internet environment. Thus, PERSONAL should not be seen as a new and more effective therapy technique, and the therapy one is already attending should not be changed.

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