Schema Therapy for Cluster-C Personality Disorders with Hannie van Genderen & Marleen Rijkeboer

Schema Therapy for Cluster-C Personality Disorders

with Hannie van Genderen & Marleen Rijkeboer

Content of the workshop

Schema Therapy (ST) is developed for patients with personality disorders and chronic Axis I disorders, who do not profit from regular CBT. ST was first extensively tested in Borderline PD with remarkable results (Giesen-Bloo et. al 2006). 

But many therapists more often see patients with cluster-C personality disorders. 

Many of these patients are quite rigid in their avoidance and obsessional patterns, often being as challenging as borderline patients, causing many therapists struggling with these patients. Thus, there is a clear need for mode-based ST approaches to cluster-C personality disorders. 

Recently an article was published in the American Journal of Psychiatry in which Schema Therapy was superior to treatment as usual and clarification-oriented psychotherapy for a.o. cluster C personality disorders (Bamelis, Evers, Spinhoven & Arntz, 2013)

This workshop will present the latest schema-mode models of cluster-C personality disorders and the main Schema Therapy techniques that can be used to address these modes. A 50-session protocol will be used as a guideline, and phases of treatment and the topics and techniques that are central in each phase will be discussed. 

The workshop leaders will demonstrate some of the major techniques and participants can practice in pairs. 

After this workshop participants can:

Understand cluster-C PDs in terms of schema modes

Have a basic idea how to time the focus of treatment and the choice of techniques over treatment

How to detect the mode that is active in the patient

Which ST-techniques can be used in each phase

How to empathically confront the patient who uses rigid coping modes, and help the patient without becoming responsible for the patient’s welfare. 

Registration & fees

Registration fee: 5. 000 NOK

Registration includes participation in all sessions, workshop handouts, and lunch & coffee/cake break each day.

For registration and further information about the seminar, please see www.psykologbehandling.no or contact Erlend Aschehoug at EMAIL

Registration deadline is February 1st, 2016