THURSDAY SELECTIONS (T)

Thursday Intensive Selections 10.00 - 6.15

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

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

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

3.    T6 Intensive: Reinventing the Child-Parent Relationship in Schema Therapy with Children and Adolescents by Christof Loose

4. T7 Intensive: Schema therapy for chronic depression by Eckhard Roediger & Alexandra Schosser

5.  T8 Intensive: Chairwork by Arnoud Arntz

6. T10 Intensive: Schema Therapy for Anxiety by Offer Maurer and Eshkol Rafaeli

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

Virtual:

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

FEATURED KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: Wendy Behary 5.30 - 6.15 PM

FRIDAY MORNING SELECTIONS (F1)

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: David Edwards 8.45 - 9.30 AM

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: Arnoud Arntz & Joan Farrell 9.30 - 10.15 AM

Friday Morning Selections 10.45 - 12.15

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

1.     F1SP1 Symposium Schema Therapy for Children & Adolescents with Christof Loose, Lars Wöckel, Melanie Achermann, Ursula Neumann, Martin Knollmann, Julia Patti & Margitta Krahmer

2.     F1SP2 Symposium: SafePath for Teams & Organizations with David Bernstein, Marjolein van Wijk-Herbrink & Theodoor de Kraker

3.     F1SP4 Symposium: New Developments in Schema Therapy Part 1 with Chris Lee, Arnoud Arntz, Duygu Yakin & Eshkol Rafaeli

4.     F1RT1 Round Table: Ethical Implications of Limited Reparenting with Poul Perris, Peregrine Kavros, & Lynda Parry

5.     F1RT2 Round Table: Schema Therapy with Culture in Mind: Gender Issues in Schema Therapy Clinical Work with Offer Maurer & Nicole Manktelow

6.     F1RT3 Round Table: Theoretical review of positive adaptive schemes and the implications in the therapeutic relationship with Daniel Ceballos

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

8.     F1CP2 Case Presentation: ST Dreamwork for Complex Trauma with Samantha Flores Reynoso, Jordi Cid and Astrid Ingham Brooke

9.     F1SC1 Skills Class: Reinventing the Therapeutic Relationship in Supervision with Zsolt Unoka 

10.   F1SC2 Skills Class: New case conceptualization in Schema Therapy:  Mode map circles, their interrelations, and the therapy plan with Ofer Peled

11.   F1SC4 Skills Class: Connect! with Chiara Simeone-DiFrancesco

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

13.   F1SC6 Skills Class: Introduction to the New Upcoming Schema Therapy Case Conceptualization with Jeff Conway, Poul Perris, Vartouhi Ohanian & David Edwards

14.  F1HT 1-6 Hot Topics:

1.     F1HT Hot Topics: Session 1: Schema Therapy vs. CBT in Psychiatric Rehabilitation of (Chronic) Depression with Alexandra Schosser

2.     F1HT2 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.     F1HT3 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.     F1HT4 Hot Topics: Session 4: Early maladaptive schemas and psychopathology in a sample of health professionals compared to professionals in other fields with Samantha Flores Reynoso

5.     F1HT5 Hot Topics: Session 5: Working with the sexualized child coping mode with Lisa Wright

FRIDAY EARLY AFTERNOON SELECTIONS (F2)

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: David Bernstein 2.00 - 2.45 PM

Friday Early Afternoon Selections 3.00 - 4.30

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

3.     F2CP2 Case Presentation: The Overlooked Phenomenon of "Hysterically Situated" Aggression with Christian Eigner

4.     F2CP3 Case Presentation: Schema Therapy with Adolescents: Creative techniques within a highly restrictive environment with Suzanna Ritter

5.     F2SC1 Skills Class: Developmental stages guide the therapeutic relation. Working with a phase-oriented approach in clinical practice with Rosi Reubsaet, Wiesette Krol, & Judith Van Hommerig

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

7.      F2SC3 Skills Class: Working with Parent/Critic Modes of Challenging Patients with the Healthy Army with Sergio Alejandro Morales Hernández

8.      F2SC4 Skills Class: How to do it? Empathic Confrontation and creating corrective emotional experiences with Remco Van der Wijngaart & Hannie Van Genderen

9.      F2SC5 Skills Class: Strengthening HA Modes with Eckhard Roediger

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

11.     F2W2 In-Congress Workshop: Preventing Burnout with Susan Simpson and Diana Kleijzen 

12.     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 & Amanda Garcia Part 1

13.     F2W4 In-Congress Workshop: Schema Coaching for Parents with Christof Loose 

14.     F2W7 In-Congress Workshop: Imagery Rescripting in Group Schema Therapy with Joan Farrell, Rita Younan, & Erlend Aschehoug Part 1 

15.     F2W8 Virtual Workshop: The Role of Good Parent Modes, Positive Schemas and a Reparenting Road Map in the Reinvention of the Therapeutic Relationship with George Lockwood

16.     F2W9 In-Congress Workshop: Using Aspects of EMDR to Improve Imagery, Greatly Enhance Schema Identification and Education, and Make the Therapeutic Relationship More Collaborative – An Experiential Workshop with Elizabeth Armstrong & William Zangwill Part 1

17.  F2HT1-6

1.     F2HT1 Hot Topics: Session 1: Schema therapy and Corrective emotional experience in the context of shared trauma with Tijana Mirovic

2.     F2HT2 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.     F2HT3 Hot Topics: Session 3: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Quantitative Literature on Schema Therapy with Pam Pilkington & Gery Karantzas

4.     F2HT4 Hot Topics Session 4: Self-Sacrifice in the Therapist and its affect on Emotion Recognition in Patients with Andrew Phipps

5.     F2HT5 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 & Nafiseh Shiri

6.     F2HT6 Hot Topics Session 6: Examining the Association between Early Maladaptive Schemas, Compensation, and Avoidance Coping Strategies with Bahar Köse Karaca & Mert Aytac

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.     F3SP2 Symposium 2: The associations between adult attachment styles and schema domains: A facet analysis with by Gery C. Katanzas, Pam Pilkington & Rita Younan

2.     F3SP3 Symposium 3: Schema Modes and Eating Disorder Symptomatology in a Brazilian Sample with Leonardo Wainer

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

4.     F3SC2 Skills Class: Diving Into The Therapeutic Relationship. What we learn from the concept of countertransference to improve self-disclosure with Guido Sijbers, Wiesette Krol, and Judith Hollands

5.     F3SC3 Skills Class: Skill-Class-3-Breaking-the-Virtual-Wall-Schema-Therapy-Online with Hagara Feldman & Xi Liu

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

7.     F3SC5 Skills Class: Parent-Child Interactions that will Meet Core Emotional Needs with John Philip Louis

8.     F3SC6 Skills Class: Shared experience and self-disclosure in schematherapy: enhancing the therapeutic relationship with Nicole Manktelow

9.     F3SC7 Skills Class: Upwards Arrow Technique: Use of Metaneeds in the Treatment of Impulsive and Entitled Behaviors with Alp Karaosmanoglu

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

11.     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 & Amanda Garcia Part 2

12.    F3W7 In-Congress Workshop: Imagery Rescripting in Group Schema Therapy with Joan Farrell, Rita Younan, & Erlend Aschehoug Part 2

13.    F3W9 In-Congress Workshop: Using Aspects of EMDR to Improve Imagery, Greatly Enhance Schema Identification and Education, and Make the Therapeutic Relationship More Collaborative – An Experiential Workshop with Elizabeth Armstrong & William Zangwill Part 2

14.    F3W10 In-Congress Workshop:  All about Coping Styles and Behavioral Strategies with Amir Askari

15.    F3W12 Virtual Workshop: Working with the Vulnerable Infant Mode with Galit Goren Gilad

16.   F3HT1-4 Hot Topics

1.     F3HT1 Hot Topics: Session 1: Pilot Study on Early Maladaptive Schemas and Personality Pathology in Substance Use Disorders (SUDs): An Indian Perspective with Ratnesh Chopra, Gitanjali Narayanan, & Pratima Murthy

2.     F3HT2 Hot Topics: Session 2: The Effect of Mindfulness in Schema Therapy with Raffaella Pagnanini

3.     F3HT3 Hot Topics: Session 3: Neuroscientific foundations of the therapeutic relationship: integration of predictive coding theory and schema therapy concepts with Olga Dobrushina

4.     F3HT4 Hot Topics: Session 4: The Need for the dreaded: An investigation of the therapeutic alliance in schema therapy for patients with avoidant personality disorder with Marie Hau

SATURDAY MORNING SELECTIONS (S1)

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: Wendy Behary & Joan Farrell 8.45 - 9.30

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: Jeff Conway 9.30 - 10.15

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,  Marit Kool, Samy Egli & Martin Rein

2.     S1SP2 Symposium: From Vulnerable Child to Vulnerable Infant: Promoting Corrective experiences in very early maladaptive schema patterns with Galit Goren Gilad, Diana Berindei, David Edwards & Maria Nulty

3.     S1SP3 Symposium: Positive Schemas or EASs: Its Identification and Use in Clinical Settings with David Bernstein & John Louis

4.     S1SP4 Symposium: Cross Cultural Issues related to Schemas and Modes among Iranian Society with Amir Askari, Golafrooz Gholamy, & Nazanin Honarparan

6.     S1RT1 Round Table: Multicultural Application of Schema Therapy Concept with Kaia Kastepoid-Tors 

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

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

9.     S1CP2 Case Presentation: Schema Therapy with Trauma with Patricia Escudero Rotman, Chris Hayes & Astrid Ingham Brooke

10.  S1CP3 Case Presentation: A Schema Model of Induced Child-Parent Attachment Suppression (I-CPAS) aka "Parental Alienation Syndrome" with Florian Ruths & Tara Cutland-Green

10.     S1SC1 Skills Class: Empathic confrontation in the supervisor-supervisee relationship with MF van Vreeswijk & M. Boog

11.     S1SC2 Skills Class: Do schemas design a future life script - How do we decide our future from childhood and how can we change it? with Cristina Sterie

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

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

14.  S1SC5 Skills Class: A Deeper Look At Cultural Vulnerability with Poul Perris

15.  S1SC6 Skills Class: Trauma Map to Enhance Schema Conceptualization with Chris Lee

SATURDAY EARLY AFTERNOON (S2)

KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: Eckhard Roediger 1.15 - 2.00 PM

Saturday Early Afternoon Selections 2.15 - 3.45 PM

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

1.   S2SP2 Symposium: How to connect with self and others: A prevention program based on Schema Therapy for children and their parents in school settings with Roza Laious

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

4.      S2SC5 Skills Class: Building the Happy Child: A ‘Play Temperament’ Focussed Approach with Andrew Phipps

5.      S2SC6 Skills Class: The Healthy Adult in chairs with Remco Van Der Wijngaart, Hélène Bögels & Julie Krans

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

7.   S2W4 Virtual Workshop: Reparenting & the Therapeutic Relationship: Layers within Layers with David Edwards 

8.   S2W5 In-Congress Workshop: Enhancing Schema Therapy Using Body Focused Techniques with Janis Briedis Part 1

9.  S2W6 In-Congress Workshop: Schema Therapy with Dreams: An Introduction with Lynda Parry

10.   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 & Mandy Walsh Part 1

11.   S2W11 In-Congress Workshop: Mastering the Inner Skills of Schema Therapy: Don’t be Nice, be REAL with Wendy Behary & Joan Farrell Part 1

12.   S2W13 In-Congress Workshop: Playtime, not shame time! Tackling shame for cluster C with a phase-oriented approach with Ruth McCuctheon, Saskia Ohlin, Wisette Krol & Rosi Reubsaet Part 1

13.     S2HT1-5 Hot Topics

1.     S2HT1 Hot Topics: Session 1: Relationship between Early Maladaptive Schemas, Anger, and Aggression with Iman Askari

2.     S2HT2 Hot Topics: Session 2: A Qualitative Survey: Schema Therapist's Perceptions of the Influence of their Early Maladaptive Schemas and Modes on Therapy with Pam Pilkington

3.     S2HT3 Hot Topics: Session 3: Limited Reparenting with Sevinç Göral Alkan

4.     S2HT4 Hot Topics: Session 4: Destined for The Dark Side? Early Maladaptive Schemas as Predictors of Dark Triad Traits and Workplace Dysfunction with Simone Ray

5.     S2HT5 Hot Topics: Session 5: Using patient-made videos to illustrate Modes in Schema Therapy with Tarja Koffert

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 with Michal Kotian, Milos Slepecky, & Antonia Kotianova

2.     S3SP2 Symposium: Schema Therapy for Cluster C Personality Disorders: Clinical trial designs and treatment protocols in practice with Arnoud Arntz, Martine Daniels, Jet Alberts, Katinka de Boer, & Birre van den Heuvel

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.     S3SC3 Skills Class: Dealings with your own addictions as a therapist with MF van Vreeswijk and M. Boog

5.     S3SC5 Skills Class: Draw your Modes! with Heleen Grandia

6.     S3W5 In-Congress Workshop: Enhancing Schema Therapy Using Body Focused Techniques with Janis Briedis Part  2

7.   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 & Mandy Walsh Part 2

8.   S3W8 Virtual Workshop: Experiencing the Thunder from the inside-out experiential work with children in Schema Therapy with Gel Geffen

9.  S3W9 Virtual Workshop: Application of Positive Schemas in Clinical Practice in Schema Therapy with Daniel Ceballos

10.   S3W11 In-Congress Workshop: Mastering the Inner Skills of Schema Therapy: Don’t be Nice, be REAL with Wendy Behary & Joan Farrell Part 2

11.   S3W13 In-Congress Workshop: Playtime, not shame time! Tackling shame for cluster C with a phase-oriented approach with Ruth McCuctheon, Saskia Ohlin, Wisette Krol & Rosi Reubsaet Part 2

13.     S3HT1-3 Hot Topics (Mini Keynotes)

1.     Session 1: Codependency and Enmeshment: A Fusion of Concepts with Jeff Conway & Ingrid Bacon

2.     Session 2: What are the key therapeutic processes in Schema Therapy? with Eckhard Roediger

3.     Session 3: Neurobiological influences of Schemas and Modes with Sarah Cohen-Woods

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