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Schema Therapy: A Practitioner’s Guide.

Jeffrey E. Young, Janet S. Klosko & Marjorie nE. Weishaar.

The Guilford Press. 2003.

ISBN: 1572308389.

Schema Therapy lays out the schema therapy model and then moves stepwise through assessment and intervention. In practical terms, it integrates cognitive, behavioural, experiential (imagery, chair work), and attachment-focused relational techniques into a coherent treatment framework explicitly geared to long‑standing maladaptive schemas.

The guide is designed for practitioners working with personality disorders and other treatment-resistant problems, emphasising: rapid case conceptualisation, thorough developmental history, systematic identification of early maladaptive schemas, and structured interventions across modes and schemas.

It also highlights using the therapeutic relationship (limited reparenting, empathic confrontation) as an active change mechanism rather than a neutral backdrop.

Jeffrey E. Young is an American clinical psychologist best known as the originator of schema therapy. He completed his undergraduate degree at Yale University, then earned graduate degrees at the University of Pennsylvania, where he did postdoctoral training with Aaron T.

Beck in cognitive therapy. Young is founder and director of the Cognitive Therapy Center of New York and Connecticut and the Schema Therapy Institute in New York City, and has served on the psychiatry faculty at Columbia University. He is a Distinguished Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy and co-founder of the International Society for Schema Therapy.

Janet S. Klosko is an American clinical psychologist specializing in cognitive and schema therapies. She earned her PhD in clinical psychology from the State University of New York at Albany, completing an internship at Brown University School of Medicine, where she worked with David H.

Barlow on research and treatment of anxiety disorders. Klosko is Co-Director of the Cognitive Therapy Center of Long Island in Great Neck, New York, senior psychologist at the Schema Therapy Institute, and maintains a private practice in Manhattan. She is a Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapies.

Marjorie E. Weishaar is a clinical psychologist and academic known for her work in cognitive therapy. She is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University Medical School, where she teaches cognitive therapy to psychiatry residents, psychology interns, and postdoctoral fellows.

Weishaar also maintains a private practice in Providence, Rhode Island, and has been affiliated with institutions such as the University of Pennsylvania.

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