From time to time we all experience tough cases. Client's who are critical, angry, unmotivated and unwilling can be difficult to assist in treatment and personally challenging. This course will focus on how schema therapists can better conceptualise and understand difficult behaviors and implement helpful treatment approaches using the schema mode approach. Therapists own schema activation will also be explored and registrants will learn how to provide sturdy and resilient responses to difficult clinical presentations.
The course can be conducted in your own time, however we suggest you complete it over a 4- 6 week period. The training constitutes 15 hours of Continuing Professional Development and will include a 1 hour zoom meeting mid way though the course. A certificate of completion will also provided on completion.
Note: This 6-Week Course Starts October 28th. Access will be available for 12-weeks from this time - but most of the content is accessible immediately on sign up.
See course outline below.
Course Curriculum
- Intro to Week 1 with Rob Brockman (1:42)
- Presentation: Tough Cases Reboot - Schema Mode Work Principals, Conceptualising Difficult Behaviour (28:04)
- Webinar: Limited Reparenting and Empathic Confrontation (26:42)
- Skills Video: Mode Work (9:21)
- Skills Video: Using Gestures (5:27)
- Reflection Exercise: Empathic Confrontation
- Week 1 Reflection Exercise: Any Questions?
- Welcome to Module 2 with Rob (2:06)
- Presentation: Interplay Between Angry and Vulnerable Child Modes (15:37)
- Presentation: Step by Step - What to do with Angry Child Mode (8:16)
- Skills Video - Angry Child How to Respond (6:16)
- Skills Videos: Setting Limits (21:38)
- Podcast: Anger Schema Therapy and Tennis Champions
- Reflection Exercise: Understanding Your Angry Child Mode
- Video Presentation: Conceptualisation of NPD (15:02)
- Skills Video 1: Empathic Confrontation with the Aggrandizer Mode (9:28)
- Video Presentation: Schema Treatment of NPD (22:56)
- Skills Video 2: Empathic Confrontation and Mode Work with the Aggrandizer (15-Minutes) (6:34)
- What's The Schemata? Podcast/Video Interview with Wendy Behary (49:57)
- Skills Practice: Empathic Confrontation with Aggrandizer or Overcompensator
- Reflection Exercise: Working with Anger, Criticism, and Difficult Behaviour in Your Practice
- Video Presentation: Conceptualising Aggression, Resistance, and Motivation in ST (15:13)
- Skills Video: Using Mode Work to Manage Angry Protector (11:31)
- Webinar Presentation: Strong Resistance to Doing Experiential Work (19:08)
- Skills Presentation: Client Resistant to Imagery and Chair Work (11:51)
- Reflection Exercise: Deliberate Practice of New Skills
- Recorded Tough Cases Q&A with Rob Brockman (62:56)
- Video Presentation 1: Conceptualisation of the Impulsive and Undisciplined Child Mode Modes (29:51)
- Skills Video 1: Imagery Rescripting with Impulsive Child Mode (16:45)
- Skills Video 2: Imagery Rescripting with the Undisciplined Child Mode (18:39)
- Skills Exercise: Practicing Imagery Rescripting with the IC/UC Modes
- Week 5 Reflection Task: Seeking and Harnessing Leverage in the Treatment of Tough Cases
- Homework Task for Module 6: Filling Out the Needs Questionnaire - Reflecting on Our Own Needs Background
Presenters- Chris Hayes & Rob Brockman, Accredited Schema Therapists, Clinical Psychologists
We will also be joined by e international