The Schema Therapy Workbook

The Schema Therapy Workbook is designed to support and help clients who are undergoing Schema Therapy in individual, group or integrated settings. Carefully designed and illustrated, it provides an easy-to-understand summary of what schema therapy (ST) is and how it works as a therapeutic intervention, and helps readers to understand the how they must engage with the process for maximum effectiveness. In clear and simple language the authors explain how problems can relate to different “modes” being triggered when particular “schemas” are activated, and how “maladaptive schemas” can develop if a person’s core needs are not met in childhood. Readers then learn to identify and recognize their own modes, come to understand how these can interfere with having their needs met today, and see how they can make healthier choices for themselves and others around them. Running case studies mirror the process of therapy while reassuring readers that they are not ‘doing it wrong’, and exercises help them to practice and maintain positive change in their lives. The central aims are understanding and engagement. Accordingly, schema therapists in all settings are likely to value a straightforward guide that they can give to clients, in order to serve as a shared base for collaboration and progress. 

Joan Farrell is Research and Training Director at the Center for BPD Treatment and Research, Indiana Univeristy School of Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Indiana Univeristy-Purdue University. She is Director of Training and Certification for the International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST). 

Eelco Muste is a clinical psychologist and Manager of the Unit for Schema Therapy at the Viersprong Academy, Amersterdam, the Netherlands. He is an ISST certified group and individual schema therapy trainer and supervisor. 

Ida Shaw is a psychotherapist, Director of the Schema Therapy Institute Midwest (STIM), and Senior Clinical Supervisor in the Center for BPD Treatment and Research, Indiana University School of Medicine. she is a cerified trainer and supervisor in individual, child-adolescent and group schema therpay.