TW3.1 - New Tools and Strategies for Developing Positive Schemas and Modes in Work with Challenging Patients - Part 1
Tracks
Track 2
Innovation
| Thursday, May 30, 2024 |
| 9:45 AM - 11:15 AM |
Overview
Pre-Conferences Workshop
Details
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In this workshop you will learn ways of increasing your effectiveness in developing positive schemas, adaptive child modes and the Healthy Adult Mode in work with complex PTSD and other challenging cases. You will first learn how to expand the scope and depth of your case conceptualization to more fully establish the foundation these adaptive capacities are built upon. You will then learn how to use this understanding to expand a range of strategies, including imagery rescripting, to more directly engage positive child modes and develop positive schemas. This positivity is most fully leveraged within a therapeutic relationship that is drawing upon 8 dimensions of limited reparenting as operationalized in the recently developed Limited Reparenting Inventory (LRI). You will learn what these dimensions are and how to embody them.
We will start with an expansion of the assessment of functioning in 5 major life areas included in the current ISST Case Conceptualization Form that includes an additional 6 areas that have strong links to optimal brain functioning and emotional well-being. An overview will be provided of key research findings demonstrating the strength of their impact. Practical guidelines for incorporating them into reparenting will be presented and guidance offered for how to increase your own functioning in each of these areas; a necessary precursor to helping your patients with this. Next a framework and set of tools for a comprehensive assessment of temperament will be provided that includes measures of adult temperament, sensory processing sensitivity and a newly developed measure of retrospective child temperament will be outlined and the ways these inform the development of positive schemas and modes will be discussed. An expansion of the framework for assessing early childhood and adolescence will be provided that helps to identify strengths by clarifying both the ways parents fell short and what they did well. How this is facilitated through the use of the PPSI and YPI-R3, tools to assess adaptive and maladaptive parenting, will be outlined. A set of 8 core emotional needs, a refinement and expansion of the current 5 postulated by Young, will be described, the nature of their empirical support discussed and the ways this refinement helps in developing positive schemas and modes discussed. A framework for the systematic assessment of both negative and positive schemas and the use of the LRI in assessing the quality and strength of the reparenting relationship and in guiding treatment and will be presented. Finally, an overview of the newly emerging frameworks for understanding our most complex mode, the Healthy Adult will be provided and what they tell us about what it is and how to develop it most fully will be discussed and demonstrated.
Case examples demonstrating the conceptualization process and the use of these new concepts, tools and frameworks over the course of a full treatment will be presented. This will include video taped examples, experiential exercises, role plays and opportunities for supervised practice of some of the key skills.
In this workshop you will learn ways of increasing your effectiveness in developing positive schemas, adaptive child modes and the Healthy Adult Mode in work with complex PTSD and other challenging cases. You will first learn how to expand the scope and depth of your case conceptualization to more fully establish the foundation these adaptive capacities are built upon. You will then learn how to use this understanding to expand a range of strategies, including imagery rescripting, to more directly engage positive child modes and develop positive schemas. This positivity is most fully leveraged within a therapeutic relationship that is drawing upon 8 dimensions of limited reparenting as operationalized in the recently developed Limited Reparenting Inventory (LRI). You will learn what these dimensions are and how to embody them.
We will start with an expansion of the assessment of functioning in 5 major life areas included in the current ISST Case Conceptualization Form that includes an additional 6 areas that have strong links to optimal brain functioning and emotional well-being. An overview will be provided of key research findings demonstrating the strength of their impact. Practical guidelines for incorporating them into reparenting will be presented and guidance offered for how to increase your own functioning in each of these areas; a necessary precursor to helping your patients with this. Next a framework and set of tools for a comprehensive assessment of temperament will be provided that includes measures of adult temperament, sensory processing sensitivity and a newly developed measure of retrospective child temperament will be outlined and the ways these inform the development of positive schemas and modes will be discussed. An expansion of the framework for assessing early childhood and adolescence will be provided that helps to identify strengths by clarifying both the ways parents fell short and what they did well. How this is facilitated through the use of the PPSI and YPI-R3, tools to assess adaptive and maladaptive parenting, will be outlined. A set of 8 core emotional needs, a refinement and expansion of the current 5 postulated by Young, will be described, the nature of their empirical support discussed and the ways this refinement helps in developing positive schemas and modes discussed. A framework for the systematic assessment of both negative and positive schemas and the use of the LRI in assessing the quality and strength of the reparenting relationship and in guiding treatment and will be presented. Finally, an overview of the newly emerging frameworks for understanding our most complex mode, the Healthy Adult will be provided and what they tell us about what it is and how to develop it most fully will be discussed and demonstrated.
Case examples demonstrating the conceptualization process and the use of these new concepts, tools and frameworks over the course of a full treatment will be presented. This will include video taped examples, experiential exercises, role plays and opportunities for supervised practice of some of the key skills.
Speaker
George Lockwood, Ph.D. George Lockwood
Director
Schema Therapy Institute Midwest
New Tools and Strategies for Developing Positive Schemas and Modes in Work with Challenging Patients
Biography
George Lockwood has been in full time private practice for the past 42 years, 30 of which have been focused on the practice of Schema Therapy. He has been one of the main collaborators with Jeffery Young in the development of Schema Therapy. He is an ISST certified Supervisor and Trainer and has provided training in Schema Therapy beginning in 1996 in California and from 2000 to the present through the Schema Therapy Institute Midwest, of which he is the director. He has continued to be active in clinical practice, research and publishing and has guided and participated in important theoretical and clinical expansions of the schema therapy model including the development of positive schemas.
