Schema therapy is designed to treat people with personality disorders, or people with “chronic” disorders, such as long-term depression.
It is based on changing non-adaptive strategies of dealing with childhood problems. It belongs to the “third wave” of cognitive-behavioral therapies.
There are seven basic emotional needs of a child:
1. secure attachment to others (unconditional love, care, understanding, compliments),
2. autonomy, competence and sense of identity,
3. freedom to express needs and emotions,
4. spontaneity,
5. realistic boundaries and self-control,
6. fairness,
7. need for self-coherence (the need for meaning)
If basic emotional needs are not met, schemas are created.
There are 21 early maladaptive schemas:
1. Abandonment / Instability
2. mistrust / abuse
3. emotional deprivation
4. DEFECTIVENESS / SHAME
5. social isolation/alienation
6. dependence/incompetence
7. VULNERABILITY TO HARM OR ILLNESS
8. ENMESHMENT / UNDEVELOPED SELF
9. FAILURE TO ACHIEVE
10. ENTITLEMENT / GRANDIOSITY
11. INSUFFICIENT SELF-CONTROL / SELF-DISCIPLINE
12. SUBJUGATION
13. self-sacrifice
14. APPROVAL-SEEKING / RECOGNITION-SEEKING
15. NEGATIVITY / PESSIMISM
16. emotional inhibition
17. UNRELENTING STANDARDS / HYPERCRITICALNESS
18. PUNITIVENESS
19. Lack of a Coherent Identity
20. Lack of a Meaningful World
21. Unfairness
If schemas are activated, then we can talk about modes:
INNATE CHILD MODES
VULNERABLE CHILD MODES
Lonely Child
Abandoned Child
Abused Child
Humiliated/Inferior Child
Dependent Child
ANGRY/UNSOCIALIZED CHILD MODES
Angry Child
Enraged Child
Impulsive Child
Undisciplined Child
HAPPY/CONTENTED CHILD MODE
MALADAPTIVE COPING MODES
SURRENDER
Compliant Surrenderer
Surrender to Damaged Child Modes
AVOIDANCE
Detached Protector
Detached Self-Soother
Avoidant Protector
Angry Protector
OVERCOMPENSATION
Attention and Approval Seeker
Self-Aggrandiser
Overcontroller
Perfectionistic Overcontroller
Suspicious Overcontroller
Scolding Overcontroller
Bully and Attack
Conning and Manipulative
ABOUT ME
Paweł Górny – certified psychotherapist of the Polish Society of Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy, Certificate No. 282: http://www.pttpb.pl/licensed-terapeuci., and the European Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. He graduated from Postgraduate Study of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (SWPS Sopot) and Centre for Solution Focused Therapy in Warsaw. He has a certificate of an advanced individual and group therapist of SCHEMA THERAPY, member of the International Society of Schema Therapy. He is currently training in Schema Therapy with Ida Shaw, Joan Farrell and Wendy Behary. He belongs to the Polish Society of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy and the Polish Psychiatric Association. Her therapeutic work is subject to regular supervision. Master of psychology (University of Gdańsk) and Polish philology (UG). He graduated from clinical psycho-oncology studies at the University Clinical Center.
In his daily work, he tries to “follow the good side of man”.
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WHY ME
OPENNESS AND EMPATHY
In the office, the Patient will meet with acceptance and understanding. I help people struggling with various difficulties, regardless of their age, origin and life history. Each of us lives the best we can at any given moment in our lives
EFFECTIVENESS
Cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy is a therapy based on cooperation and individual elaboration of the patient’s problems. The patient works on change, striving to achieve selected therapeutic goals. In therapy, we use treatment techniques with scientifically proven effectiveness
EXPERIENCE
I have experience in working with patients struggling with affective (mood), anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, adaptive, eating, sleep, personality, psychotic and addiction disorders. I have experience in clinical work and in healthcare units.