THURSDAY SELECTIONS (T)

Thursday Intensive Selections 9.00 - 5.15

Choose one intensive workshop for the entire day (6 hours, 4 segments):

1.     T1 Intensive: Imagery Rescripting by Remco van der Wijngaart and Chris Hayes

2.     T2 Intensive: Transforming Challenging Couples  by Travis Atkinson and Poul Perris

3.     T3 Intensive: Enhancing Therapy Effectiveness through Better Conceptualization by Susanne Vind and Jeff Young

4. T4 Intensive: Eating Disorders by Susan Simpson and Robert Brockman

5.  T5 Intensive: Limited Reparenting at the Heart of Interventions for BP by Gillian Heath and Helen Startup

6.  T6 Intensive: Reinventing the Child-Parent Relationship in Schema Therapy with Children and Adolescents by Christof Loose, Paul Kasyanik and Maria Galimzyanova

7. T7 Intensive: Schema therapy for chronic depression by Alexandra Schosser and Eckhard Roediger

8.  T8 Intensive: Chairwork by Arnoud Arntz

9. T9 Intensive: Schema Therapy from the Inside Out by Joan Farrell and Ida Shaw

10. T10 Intensive: Schema Therapy for Anxiety by Offer Mauer and Eshkol Rafaeli

11.  T11 Intensive: Schema Therapy and Psychodrama in Group by Natalie van Oort and Pim van Dun

12. T12 Intensive:  Fortifying the Therapy Relationship when Dealing with Narcissism, Enmeshment, and Other Challenging Patients by Wendy Behary and Jeff Conway

FRIDAY MORNING SELECTIONS (F1)

Friday Morning Selections 10.45 - 12.15

Choose one symposium, a roundtable discussion, or a hot topic series (6 sessions). 

1.     F1SP1 Symposium ST for Children & Adolescents: Christof Loose, Lars Wöckel, Melanie Achermann, Ursula Neumann & Martin Knollmann, Margitta Krahmer

2.     F1SP2 Symposium: SafePath for Teams & Organizations: David Bernstein, Bo Sayyad Bach, John Louis, Robert Brockman

3.     F1SP3 Symposium: “Playing” in the therapeutic Relationship: Impact Technique in ST Raffaella Calzoni, Limited Reparenting in Obsessive-compulsive disorder clients: spontaneity and play in the therapeutic relationship with Harold Dadamo and Filippo Tinelli

4.     F1SP4 Symposium: New Developments in Schema Therapy Part 1 with Marleen Rijkeboer Chair, Christopher Lee, Arnoud Arntz, Duygu Yakin, Johannes Kopf-Beck, and Eshkol Rafaeli

5.     F1RT1 Round Table: Ethical Implications of Limited Reparenting with Poul Perris, Peregrine Kavros, Vartouhi Ohanian, Lynda Parry

6.     F1CP1 Case Presentation: Chair Work and the Four Dialogues with Eckhard Roediger and Scott Kellogg

7.     F1CP2 Case Presentation: ST Dreamwork for Complex Trauma with Samantha Flores Reynoso and Maira Tiscornia Fortunato 

8.     F1SC1 Skills Class: Reinventing the Therapeutic Relationship in Supervision with Zsolt Unoka and Tünde Vankó

9.     F1SC2 Skills Class: Right Brain to Right Brain Psychopathology: The Neurobiology of Limited Reparenting with Rita Younan and Ruth Holt

10.  F1SC3 Skills Class: Schema Therapy in Clinical Leadership with Bas van Oosterhout and Caroline Truijens

11.  F1SC4 Skills Class: Difficult Couples with Chiara Simeone-DiFrancesco

12.  F1SC5 Skills Class: Interplay between Patient and Therapist Schemas and Mode Maps with Galit Goren Gilad

13.  F1HT 1-6 Hot Topics:

1.     F1HT Hot Topics: Session 1: Early maladaptive schemas as predictors for depression severity and treatment response to an ambulant psychiatric rehabilitation programme with Alexandra Schosser, Gabriele Riedl, Nicole Pritz, Birgit Senft

2.     F3FT2 Hot Topics: Session 2: A randomized controlled trial examining the impact of treating core schema memories with trauma focused therapy for individuals with depression with Chris Lee

3.     F3FT3 Hot Topics: Session 3: Family Cohesion as a Mechanism Perpetuates Schemas and Affects the Perception of Social Support in the Relationship Between Parental Conflict and Depression Level with Gizem Kavalci

4.     F3FT4 Hot Topics: Session 4: Acceptability, Usability and Early Outcomes of a Schema Therapy-Based Self-Help Mobile Application for Depressive Symptoms with Paula Stroian, Daniel David

5.     F3FT5 Hot Topics: Session 5: Working with the sexualized child coping mode with Lisa Wright

6.     F3FT6 Hot Topics: Session 6: The Role of Early Maladaptive Schemas and Coping Modes in Burnout Amongst Mental Health Nurses: A Replication Study with Tanya Petersen, Chris Harrop

FRIDAY EARLY AFTERNOON SELECTIONS (F2)

Friday Early Afternoon Selections 3.00 - 4.30

Choose two 90-minute segments or one 180-minute segment.

1.     F2SP1 Symposium: Improving Healthy Modes with Barbara Basile, Alessandra Manchini, Olga Ines Luppino, Eckhard Roediger, Raffaella Calzoni

2.     F2SP2 Symposium: New Developments in Schema Therapy Part 2 with Marleen Rijkeboer, Chair. Robert Brockman, Michiel Boog, Marjolein van Wijk-Herbrink, Richard Vuyck, 

3.     F2CP1 Case Presentation: ST of children with conduct disorders, aggressive & self-harming behaviors with Maria Galimzyanova and Elena Romanova

4.     F2CP2 Case Presentation: Schizophrenia and ST in Forensic Work with Christian Eigner & Chiara Simeone-DiFrancesco

5.     F2SC1 Skills Class: Reinventing the Therapeutic Relationship with Rosi Reubsaet, Wiesette Krol, and Judith Vanhommerig

6.     F2SC2 Skills Class: Healthy Adult Qualities with David Bernstein and Limor Navot

7.     F2W1 In-Congress Workshop: Overcoming Therapeutic Impasses in Schema Couples Therapy with Travis Atkinson & Poul Perris Part 1

8.     F2W2 In-Congress Workshop: Preventing Burnout with Susan Simpson and Diana Kleijzen Part 1

9.     F2W3 In-Congress Workshop: Contextual Schema Therapy and the Four Dialogues: using Chairwork to Resolve Complex Emotions, Challenge Inner Critic Modes and Develop the Capacity for Self-Witnessing and Self-Compassion with Scott Kellogg Part 1

10.  F2W4 In-Congress Workshop: Schema Coaching for Parents with Christof Loose Part 1

11.  F2W5 In-Congress Workshop: Group Schema Therapy with Annemieke Koppeschaar, Maria Rocher, and Kasper Nikkels Part 1

12.  F2W6 In-Congress Workshop: Complex Trauma & Dissociation with Robin Spiro and Judith Margolin Part 1

13.  F2HT1-6

1.     F2HT1 Hot Topics: Session 1: The Efficacy of Schema Therapy on Quality of Life, Marital Satisfaction and General Wellbeing of Patients with Female Orgasmic Disorder (FOD) with Amir Askari, Golafrooz Gholamy

2.     F2HT2 Hot Topics: Session 2: Early maladaptive schemas and psychopathology in a sample of health professionals compared to professionals in other fields with Samantha Flores Reynoso I

3.     F2HT3 Hot Topics: Session 3: Disgust Sensitivity and Early Experiences: An Observational Study using IWR with Olga Ines Luppino II, Alessandra Mancini

4.     F2HT4 Hot Topics Session 4: Schema therapy and Corrective emotional experience in the context of shared trauma with Tijana Mirovic

5.     F2HT5 Hot Topics Session 5: Pilot Study on Early Maladaptive Schemas and Personality pathology in Substance use disorders (SUDs): An Indian Perspective with Ratnesh Chopra, Gitanjali Narayanan, Pratima Murthy

6.     F2FT6 Hot Topics: Session 6: Improving the Assessment of Early Maladaptive Schemas Using the Young Schema Questionnaire with Ozgur Yalcin, Christopher Lee

FRIDAY LATE AFTERNOON SELECTIONS (F3)

Friday Late Afternoon Selections 5.00 - 6.30

Continuation of 180-minute segment, second 90-minute segment or Hot Topics.

1.     F3SP1 Symposium: Feasibility of imagery in psychopathology Olga Luppino, Remco van der Wijngaart, Barbara Basile, Katia Tenore, Robert Brockman

2.     F3SC1 Skills Class: Treating Narcissists with Chair Work and the Mode Model by Matias Valente

3.     F3SC2 Skills Class: Diving into the Therapeutic Relationship with Guido Sijbers, Wiesette Krol, and Judith Hollands

4.     F3SC3 Skills Class: Online Schema Therapy with Hagara Feldman, Xi Liu, Sally Skewes and Diana Kleijzen

5.     F3SC4 Skills Class: ST for Adolescents and Young Adults after Peer Victimization with Eva Dresbach

6.     F3SC5 Skills Class: Good enough parenting with John Philip Louis

7.     F3W1 In-Congress Workshop: Overcoming Therapeutic Impasses in Schema Couples Therapy with Travis Atkinson & Poul Perris Part 2

8.     F3W2 In-Congress Workshop: Preventing Burnout with Susan Simpson and Diana Kleijzen Part 2

9.     F3W3 In-Congress Workshop: Contextual Schema Therapy and the Four Dialogues: using Chairwork to Resolve Complex Emotions, Challenge Inner Critic Modes and Develop the Capacity for Self-Witnessing and Self-Compassion with Scott Kellogg Part 2

10.  F3W4 In-Congress Workshop: Schema Coaching for Parents with Christof Loose Part 2

11.  F3W5 In-Congress Workshop: Group Schema Therapy with Annemieke Koppeschaar, Maria Rocher, and Kasper Nikkels Part 2

12.  F3W6 In-Congress Workshop: Complex Trauma & Dissociation with Robin Spiro and Judith Margolin Part 2

13.  F3HT1-6 Hot Topics

1.     F3FT1 Hot Topics: Session 1: Validation of the Brazilian portuguese version of the Schema Mode Inventory with Elisa Steinhorst Damasceno, Felipe Goncalves Ferronato

2.     F3FT2 Hot Topics: Session 2: Maladaptive Schemas in migrants and their stress perception through the Questionnaire on stress in the migratory process (MP-MPSQ) and the Maladaptive Schemas Questionnaire - Research Version (EMSQ-R) with Leticia Marin

3.     F3FT3 Hot Topics: Session 3: Conceptualization for problem behavior: chain analysis of modes with Natalia Dikova

4.     F3FT4 Hot Topics: Session 4: Relationship between Early Maladaptive schemas, anger, and aggression with Iman Askari

5.     F3FT5 Hot Topics: Session 5: The Efficiency of Treatment Binge Eating Disorder in Schema-Therapeutic Online Groups with Maria Borisova, Maria Skryabina

6. F3HT6 Hot Topics Session 6: Schema therapy for personality disorders in inmates with co-occurring addictions: Differential changes in schemas, modes, and symptom distress with Bo Bach

SATURDAY MORNING SELECTIONS (S1)

Saturday Morning Selections 10.30 - 12.00

Choose one 90-minute selection or a hot topic series.

1.     S1SP1 Symposium: Schema Therapy for Depression with Arnoud Arntz, Alexandra Schosser, Eckhard Roediger, Martin Rein, Silke Bramer-Ugur, Marit Kool

2.     S1SP2 Symposium: From Vulnerable Child to Vulnerable Infant: Can We Access and Work with the Very Earliest Maladaptive Schemas with Bruce Stevens, David Edwards, Galit Gilad

3.     S1SP3 Symposium: Integration of ST & Positive Psychology David Bernstein, Bo Sayyad Bach, John Louis, Robert Brockman

4.     S1RT1 Round Table: Multicultural Application of Schema Therapy Concept with Aleksandra Yaltonskaya and Paul Kasyanik (Chairs), Darya Maryasova, Ilona Krone, Kaia Kastepold-Tors

5.     S1RT2 Round Table: Gender Differences in Mode Work in Forensic Settings with Chris Harrop, Tanya Petersen, Claire Gately

6.     S1CP1 Case Presentation: When the Vulnerable Child is a Different Gender with Xi Liu and Ben Callegari

7.     S1CP2 Case Presentation: ST with Trauma with Patricia Escudero Rotman & Chris Hayes & Astrid Ingham Brooke

8.     S1SC1 Skills Class: Personal Schema Group Therapy with MF van Vreeswijk and M. Boog

9.     S1SC2 Skills Class: Working with the Parent Mode with Maria Cristina Sterie

10.  S1SC3 Skills Class: Working with the Soldier Mode with Megan Fry

11.  S1SC4 Skills Class: Relighting the Fire: Using Chair Work to Reconnect Couples in Schema Therapy with Mathias Valente

12.  S1SC5 Skills Class: Bridging Existential Pain with Love in Schema Therapy: Expanding Young’s Original Model with Existential Concepts with Poul Perris

13.     S1HT1-6 Hot Topics

1.     S1HT1 Hot Topics: Session 1: Client-Therapist Physiological synchrony and therapeutic alliance in an imagery-based treatment with Eshkol Rafaeli, Jessica Prinz, Eran Bar-Kalifa

2.     S1HT2 Hot Topics: Session 2: Self-Sacrifice in the Therapist and it's affect on Emotion Recognition in Patients with Andrew Phipps, Naiha Seepaul, Craig Gonsalvez, Emily Rooleht

3.     S1HT3 Hot Topics: Session 3: The Need for the dreaded - An investigation of the therapeutic alliance in schema therapy for patients with avoidant personality disorder with Marie Hau

4.     S1HT4 Hot Topics: Session 4: The Effect of Mindfulness in Schema Therapy with Raffaella Pagnanini, Harold Dadomo

5.     S1HT5 Hot Topics: Session 5: The effectiveness of Group Schema Therapy on Modifying Coping Strategies in Iranian Women with a History of Spouse Infidelity with Sajedeh Vadoudi, Nafise shiri

6. S1HT6 Hot Topics: Session 6: Examining the Association between Early Maladaptive Schemas, Compensation, and Avoidance Coping Strategies with Mert Aytac, Bahar Köse Karaca, Alp Karaosmanoglu

SATURDAY EARLY AFTERNOON (S2)

Saturday Early Afternoon Selections 2.15 - 3.45

Choose two 90-minute segments or one 180-minute segment.

1.     S2CP1 Case Presentation: ST treatment of Child-Parent Attachment with Florian Ruths, Tara Cutland-Green and Lorraine Gordon

2.     S2SC1 Skills Class: “Maybe I will, maybe I won’t.” Working with Motivation, Ambivalence and Resistance in Schema Therapy with ST Kirsty Gilings and Chris Hayes

3.      S2SC2 Skills Class: When the Going Gets Tough: Schema Therapy with Couples. An Introduction into a Module-Based, Strategic Approach with Eckhard Roediger, Matias Valente, Eva Frank-Noyon, and Julia Hinrichs

4.      S2SC3 Skills Class: ST and the Body: How Physical Perceptions Can Be Looked at as an Entry Point to Work with Modes by Serena Saccani and Irene Giardini

5.      S2SC4 Skills Class: Trauma Map to Enhance Schema Conceptualization with Christopher Lee

6.      S2SC5 Skills Class: Taming the Over-Analyzer: Schema Therapy for Rumination, Worry and Repetitive Negative Thinking with Robert Brockman and Andrew Phipps

7.     S2W1 In-Congress Workshop: Fine-Tuning Empathic Confrontation and Limit Setting with Hannie van Genderen & Remco van der Wijngaart Part 1

8.     S2W2 In-Congress Workshop: Addiction & Intimacy Disorders: Conceptualization and Connection in the Therapeutic Relationship with Elizabeth Lacy Part 1

9.     S2W3 In-Congress Workshop: Schema Therapy for Families: Using the Therapeutic Relationship with a Multi-Generational Family with Jan Kossack and Anousha Hadinia Part 1

10.  S2W4 In-Congress Workshop: Reparenting & the Therapeutic Relationship: Layers within Layers with David Edwards Part 1

11.  S2W5 In-Congress Workshop: Enhancing Schema Therapy Using Body Focused Techniques with Janis Briedis and Helen Startup Part 1

12.  S2W6 In-Congress Workshop: Schema Therapy with Dreams and Nightmares with Lynda Parry Part 1

13.  S2W7 In-Congress Workshop: Learning Healthy Adult Sexuality: Creating a Therapy Relationship Safe Enough to Explore Sexuality (for Both the Therapist and Patient) with Ruth Holt Part 1

SATURDAY LATE AFTERNOON (S3)

Saturday Late Afternoon Selections 4.15- 5.45

Continuation of 180-minute segment or second 90-minute segment.

1.     S3SP1 Symposium: EMSs, Stress & Cardiovascular Diseases Milos Slepecky, Bo Bach, John Philip Louis and Robert Brockman

2.     S3CP1 Case Presentation: Strengthening the Healthy Adult Mode with Rosi Reubsaet, Sally Skewes, Jenny Broersen and Anne-Marie Claassen

3.     S3SC1 Skills Class: Take a Look at Yourself: Building Up a Positive Body Image and Training Self-Compassion in Front of the Mirror with Yvonne Reusch

4.     S3SC2 Skills Class: Schema Therapy for Eating Disorders: the Importance of the Therapeutic Relationship and Case Conceptualization with Laura Beccia and Marina Cirio

5.     S3SC3 Skills Class: Authenticity and Openness in the Supervisee-Supervisor Relationship with MF van Vreeswijk and M. Boog

9.     S3SC4 Skills Class: Cluster C Playful Child Mode to Tackle Shame with Ruth McCutcheon, Saskia Ohlin and Wisette Krol

7.     S3W1 In-Congress Workshop: Fine-Tuning Empathic Confrontation and Limit Setting with Hannie van Genderen & Remco van der Wijngaart Part 2

8.     S3W2 In-Congress Workshop: Addiction & Intimacy Disorders: Conceptualization and Connection in the Therapeutic Relationship with Elizabeth Lacy Part 2

9.     S3W3 In-Congress Workshop: Schema Therapy for Families: Using the Therapeutic Relationship with a Multi-Generational Family with Jan Kossack and Anousha Hadinia Part 2

10.  S3W4 In-Congress Workshop: Reparenting & the Therapeutic Relationship: Layers within Layers with David Edwards Part 2

11.  S3W5 In-Congress Workshop: Enhancing Schema Therapy Using Body Focused Techniques with Janis Briedis and Helen Startup Part 2

12.  S3W6 In-Congress Workshop: ST with Dreams and Nightmares with Lynda Parry Part 2

13.  S3W7 In-Congress Workshop: Learning Healthy Adult Sexuality: Creating a Therapy Relationship Safe Enough to Explore Sexuality (for Both the Therapist and Patient) with Ruth Holt Part 2

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