This 6-week interactive online course introduces registrants to the Schema Mode Model (the model typically used for complex presentations). The training is skills-based, with multiple opportunities to learn techniques for working with difficult-to-treat clinical presentations (particularity Borderline Personality Disorder, Cluster-C Personality Disorders, Complex Trauma, & Chronic Depression). Chris & Rob make use of a mix of professionally recorded webinar-style presentations, skills demonstrations, and thought provoking reflection tasks designed to increase your knowledge and application of the schema mode model to complex cases. A live Zoom Q&A consultation meeting is also scheduled midway during the program (Taped and streamed later for those that can't make it live).
The training constitutes 16-hours of active professional development and you will be provided a certificate on completion.
This Course starts October 5th (2020) and goes for 6-weeks. Access to the course (and downloadable materials/scripts) will be given for 12-weeks total in case 'life happens' and you need some additional time to complete the modules.
Course Curriculum
Welcome to Schema Therapy Online Course Level 2! (Starts October 5th 2020)
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Week 1: The Schema Mode Model: An Introduction
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- Welcome to Week 1 (6 Minutes) (5:04)
- Week 1 Webinar Video (Part 1): Conceptual Background to the 'Mode' Concept and Mode Model (27 Minutes) (27:05)
- Week 1 Webinar Video (Part 2): Getting to Know the Modes (34:36)
- Week 1 Webinar Video (Part 3) Getting to Know the Modes Role Play with Chris and Rob (21:57)
- Building your Mode Fluency with Movie Clips (Scroll Down for Instructions) (9:36)
- Week 1 Reflection Exercise: Building Your Mode Fluency with Exemplars
- Week 1 Homework for Next Week: Give one Patient the Schema Mode Inventory (Due Week 2)
- Additional/Optional (Geek Out Reading) Beyond Belief (Beck, 1996)
Week 2: Assessment, Conceptualisation and Formulation using the Model Model
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- Week 2 Welcome and Overview with Rob (4 Mins) (2:05)
- Scoring and Interpreting the Schema Mode Inventory (13:18)
- Week 2 Webinar Video (Part 1): Mode Assessment and Formulation (30 Minutes) (30:01)
- Week 2 Reflection Task: Mode Mapping a Client
- Week 2 Webinar Video (Part 2): Imagining the Road Ahead - Structuring Treatment in Schema Therapy (20 Min) (19:26)
- Optional Reading Material: Case Conceptualisation in Schema Therapy - Fassbender et al (2019)
- Save the Date: Schema Therapy Cafe' October 26th 7pm AEDST (Melbourne/ Sydney)
Week 3 - Change Processes in Schema Mode Work
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- Intro to Week 3 - Core Change Approaches in Schema Mode Work (16:08)
- Week 3 Podcast Audio: Limited Reparenting, Empathic Confrontation and Attunement
- Skills Video: Use of Empathic Confrontation and Care with the Aggrandiser (15:03)
- Week 3 Skills Video: A 5-Step Process Model of Attunement (21:28)
- Week 3 Skills Video: Application of 5-Step Process Approach to Attunement with an Overcontroller Mode Active (13:06)
- Week 3 Reflection Exercise: Practice Attunement with a Client (or colleague)
Week 4: Bypassing Coping Modes - Mode Work in Schema Therapy
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- Week 4 Webinar: Mode Work in Schema Therapy (23:53)
- Week 4: Skills Video - Interviewing the Detached Protector Mode (10:56)
- Week 4 Skills Video: Using Chair Work to Bypass Detached Protector Mode (7:55)
- Skills Video: Moding out a Trigger (10 Mins) (9:21)
- Week 4 Reflection Task: "Moding" Out A Problem
- Bonus Video Podcast: "What's the Schema" Interview with Wendy Behary on Narcissism and Empathic Confrontation (49:57)
Week 5: Working with Critic Modes & Vunlerable Child Mode
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- Week 5 Video Presentation: Critic Modes Defined (18 minutes) (17:28)
- Webinar: Experiential Methods in Working With Critic Modes - Chair Work (13:32)
- Week 5: Skills Video: Chair Work with Punitive Critic Mode (8:25)
- New Lecture: Webinar: Experiential Methods - Imagery (16:15)
- Week 5 Skills Presentation: Using Imagery Rescripting (13:28)
- Skills Video- Chair Work - With the Vulnerable Child Mode (3:42)
- Week 5 Reflection and Skills Exercise: Using chair work in your practice
Week 6: Therapist Schemas - Course Reflection - Resources - Road Ahead
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- Video Presentation, Are you getting in your own way? (15:34)
- Self-Reflection Task: Mode-Flash Card
- Skills Demonstration: Imagery Rescripting of Therapist Unrelenting Standards/Failure Schema (20:03)
- Role Play Task (Optional): Imagery Rescripting of Therapist Schemas
- Video: Evidence-Base for Schema Therapy (11:34)
- Uploaded Q&A with Chris Hayes from Week 3 (58:47)
- Bonus Q&A with Rob Brockman
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Chris Hayes, Advanced Schema Therapist, Clinical Psychologist
International Society of Schema Therapy Board Secretary 2014-2018
Chris is based in Perth, Western Australia. Since 2005, he has been practicing as an advanced Schema Therapist, supervisor and trainer having completed certification in Schema Therapy at the Schema Therapy Institute in New York City (USA) with Dr Jeffery Young. He has presented workshops throughout Europe, Asia and Australasia. He is the Director of Schema Therapy Training Australia.