Target Audience: Individual Schema Therapists for Adults, who work with clients suffering from upbringing issues; and Schema Therapists for Children, Adolescents and Parents
Level of experience required for participants: Intermediate and advanced level in Schema Therapy
Abstract: When we talk about SCP we mean a special form of psycho-education and parent work, often in addition to Schema Therapy for Children and Adolescents (ST-CA). In SCP we talk and act not just regarding the child, but in the center of our attention are the PARENT’S core emotional needs, adaptive and maladaptive schemas, as well as functional and dysfunctional modes. If we don’t support parents with these deeper insights about themselves and their parenting, we -in the best case- might help the children within ST-CA to understand their core needs, modes, schema (dispositions) to learn healthy ways to get what they need for their healthy development, but we won’t break the likely schema collusions and mode clashes between parent and child.
Learning objectives: On the first day, participants will learn how to provide an understanding of the three main perspectives within SCP: empathy, understanding, and modification of one’s own parenting. Each perspective will be explained, partly by video examples with a mother.
On the second day, the trainer will show how the “House for Generations” is used, a visualized and playful approach to clarify the transmission of maladaptive schemas from generation to generation. In this technique we integrate the concept of Positive Schemas to finally break unhealthy transgenerational schema patterns.
Trainer: Christof Loose, PhD., Clinical Psychologist, Psychotherapist for Children and Adolescents (CBT), works in his own Private Practice in Dusseldorf, affiliated with the Heinrich-Heine-University, Department of Clinical Psychology, Germany 2012-2017, research activity e.g. in ST-CA (Development of Schema-Questionnaire for Children (DISC), Chair of the subcommittee Working Group in ST-CA 2013-2017, since 2013 advanced-level certified, trainer and supervisor (ISST e.V.), editor and author of ST-CA books and Video-Learning (DVD), conducts workshops and seminars in Schema Therapy for Children, Adolescents and Parents, wordwide
Additional information about ST-CA on www.schematherapy-for-children.de .