Group Schema Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder

Utilizing both cognitive behavioral and experiential techniques, Schema Therapy (ST) is an innovative integrative therapeutic approach developed by Jeffrey Young for the treatment of individuals with personality disorders and personality disorder features. Group Schema Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder represents the first treatment manual for group schema therapy-and is based on the only group ST model validated by published empirical evidence and ongoing international research. Practitioners are provided with step-by-step guidelines, in-group exercises, patient handouts, and homework exercises-all the necessary tools for the application of ST interventions in group and ways to make use of group process opportunities and therapeutic factors. All materials are presented in a user-friendly manner to benefit therapists at all levels of experience-practitioners new to ST are provided with session-by-session suggestions with corresponding patient materials; experienced schema therapists can create their own order of preference based on patient groups; cognitive therapists can try out the experiential exercises; and experiential therapists can utilize the cognitive and behavioral techniques. 'Guest' chapters written or co-written by international experts in ST offer insights into a variety of related topics including the coordination of individual and group ST, future directions for GST and more.