Young Jeffrey E. - Schema therapy: distinctive features

Schema Therapy

Schema Therapy combines proven cognitive behavioral therapy techniques with elements of interpersonal, experiential, and psychodynamic therapies in order to help people with long-term mental health problems including personality disorders and chronic depression. Schema Therapy suggests that many negative cognitive conditions are based on past experiences, and therefore provides models for challenging and modifying negative thoughts and behaviors in order to provoke change.

In this book, Eshkol Rafaeli, David Bernstein and Jeffrey Youngpioneers of the Schema Therapy approachindicate the 30 distinctive features of Schema Therapy, and how the method fits into the broader CBT spectrum.

Divided into two parts, Theoretical Points and Practical Points. This book provides a concise introduction for those new to the technique, as well as a discussion of how it differs from the other cognitive behavioral therapies for those experienced in the field.

Eshkol Rafaeli is a Clinical Psychologist specializing in both cognitive behavioral therapy and Schema Therapy and is Associate Professor at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

David P.Bernstein is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Psychology at Maastricht University, The Netherlands.

Jeffrey Young is the Founder and Director of the Cognitive Therapy Centers of New York and Connecticut, and the Schema Therapy Institute in New York City.

Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) occupies a central position in the move towards evidence-based practice and is frequently used in the clinical environment. Yet there is no one universal approach to CBT and clinicians speak of first-, second-, and even third-wave approaches.

This series provides straightforward, accessible guides to a number of CBT methods, clarifying the distinctive features of each approach. The series editor, Windy Dryden, successfully brings together experts from each discipline to summarize the 30 main aspects of their approach divided into theoretical and practical features.

The CBT Distinctive Features Series will be essential reading for psychotherapists, counselors, and psychologists of all orientations who want to learn more about the range of new and developing cognitive behavioral approaches.

Titles in the series:

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy by Paul E.Flaxman, J.T. Blackledge and Frank Bond

Becks Cognitive Therapy by Frank Wills

Behavioral Activation by Jonathan Kanter, Andrew M.Busch and Laura C.Rusch

Compassion Focused Therapy by Paul Gilbert

Constructivist Psychotherapy by Robert A.Neimeyer

Dialectical Behaviour Therapy by Michaela A.Swales and Heidi L.Heard

Metacognitive Therapy by Peter Fisher and Adrian Wells

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy by Rebecca Crane

Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy by Windy Dryden

Schema Therapy by Eshkol Rafaeli, David P.Bernstein and Jeffrey Young

For further information about this series please visit www.routledgementalhealth.com/cbt-distinctive-features

Schema Therapy

Distinctive Features

Eshkol Rafaeli, David P.Bernstein and Jeffrey Young

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First published 2011
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2011 Eshkol Rafaeli, David P.Bernstein and Jeffrey Young

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Rafaeli, Eshkol, 1970
Schema therapy: distinctive features/Eshkol Rafaeli, David P. Bernstein & Jeffrey Young.
p. ; cm.
ISBN 978-0-415-46298-3 (hbk.)ISBN 978-0-415-46299-0 (pbk.) 1. Schema-focused cognitive therapy. I. Bernstein, David P. II. Young, Jeffrey E., 1950III. Title.
[DNLM: 1. Cognitive Therapy-methods. 2. Mental Disorderstherapy. WM 425.5.C6 R136s 2010]
RC489.S34R34 2010
616.89'1425dc22
2010014269

ISBN 0-203-84170-0 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN: 978-0-415-46298-3 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-415-46299-0 (pbk)