What Does Schema Therapy Entail?
Phase 1: Assessment and Education
The assessment phase generally lasts for five to seven sessions and focuses on:
- Education about the Schema Therapy model.
- Assessing schemas and coping styles through interviews, inventories and emotional techniques.
- Scoring and interpreting the results of various schema inventories.
- Activating schemas using emotional techniques such as imagery.
- Noticing how schemas show up in the therapy relationship.
Phase 2: Schema Therapy Treatment
As a longer-term, depth-oriented treatment approach for chronic emotional and relationship problems as well as personality change, you can expect the active treatment phase to be about one to two years of weekly therapy. As mentioned earlier, Schema Therapy uses a variety of strategies to contribute to change.
- Cognitive Techniques: schema diaries, pros and cons of schemas and coping styles, schema dialogues and flashcards.
- Emotion-Focused Techniques: emotional change through imagery, role plays and two-chair work.
- Therapy Relationship: empathic confrontation and analyzing schemas when triggered in sessions.
- Behavioral Techniques: behavioral assignments, skills training and exposure tasks to overcome avoidance of trigger situations.
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