Deliberate Practice in Schema Therapy

Deliberate practice exercises allow students and trainees to rehearse foundational schema therapy skills so that they can build competence and hone their own personal therapeutic styles.

Each book in the Essentials of Deliberate Practice series contains customized role-playing exercises in which two trainees act as a client and a therapist, switching back and forth under a supervisor's guidance. The trainee playing the therapist improvises appropriate and authentic responses to client statements organized into three difficulty levels--beginner, intermediate, and advanced--reflecting common issues encountered by schema therapists.

The first 12 exercises focus on skills derived from schema therapy's three stages--bonding and emotional regulation, mode change, and autonomy--and include limited reparenting, psychoeducation about schema modes, and empathic confrontation. Following these are two comprehensive exercises--an annotated transcript and free-form mock therapy sessions--in which trainees integrate essential skills into a single session.

Step-by-step instructions guide participants through the exercises, identify criteria for mastering each skill, and explain how to monitor and adjust difficulty. Guidelines to help trainers and trainees get the most out of training are also provided.

Author: Wendy T. Behary, Joan M. Farrell, Alexandre Vaz
Publisher: American Psychological Association (APA)
Published: 02/28/2023
Pages: 226
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 10.90h x 8.40w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781433836022
ISBN10: 1433836025
BISAC Categories:
- Psychology | Education & Training
- Psychology | Psychotherapy | Counseling
- Psychology | Clinical Psychology

About the Author
Wendy T. Behary, MSW, LCSW, is the founder and director of The Cognitive Therapy Center of New Jersey and The Schema Therapy Institutes of NJ-NYC-DC. She was also the President of the International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST) from 2010-2014. She is the author of Disarming the Narcissist: Surviving and Thriving with the Self-Absorbed (New Harbinger Publications). She has been treating narcissist clients, their partners and associates, and couples experiencing relationship problems; training professionals; and supervising psychotherapists for over 20 years. She lectures internationally to professional and general audiences on schema therapy and on narcissism and relationships.

Joan M. Farrell, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and Adjunct Professor of Psychology and Research Director of the Center for Borderline Personality Disorder Treatment and Research at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. She directs the Schema Therapy Institute Midwest--Indianapolis. She has been training psychologists and psychotherapists internationally for 40 years. She developed a group model of schema therapy with Ida Shaw, and they wrote two books on this model for borderline and other personality disorders (Wiley Blackwell). Their latest book is Experiencing Schema Therapy From the Inside-Out: A Self-Practice/Self-Reflection Workbook for Therapists (Guilford Press). Visit https: //www.schematherapy-training.com/.

Alexandre Vaz, PhD, is cofounder and director of training of the Sentio Counseling Center. He provides deliberate practice workshops and clinical training and supervision around the world. Dr. Vaz is the author/coeditor of many books on deliberate practice and psychotherapy training and two book series: The Essentials of Deliberate Practice (APA Books) and Advanced Therapeutics, Clinical and Interpersonal Skills (Elsevier). He has held multiple committee roles for the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration (SEPI) and the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR). Dr. Vaz is founder and host of "Psychotherapy Expert Talks," an acclaimed interview series with distinguished psychotherapists and researchers.

Tony Rousmaniere, PsyD, is cofounder and executive director of the Sentio Counseling Center. He is the author/coeditor of many books on deliberate practice and psychotherapy training and two book series: The Essentials of Deliberate Practice (APA Books) and Advanced Therapeutics, Clinical and Interpersonal Skills (Elsevier). Dr. Rousmaniere is incoming president of Division 29 of the American Psychological Association. In 2017, he published the widely cited article in The Atlantic Monthly, "What Your Therapist Doesn't Know." Dr. Rousmaniere supports the open-data movement and publishes clinical outcome data on his website drtonyr.com.