A MASTER CLASS WITH JOAN FARRELL, Ph.D & IDA SHAW, M.A.
Authors of Group Schema Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder: A Step-by-step Treatment Manual with Patient Workbook, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012; The Schema Therapy Clinician’s Guide: A Complete Resource for Building and Delivering Individual and Group Integrated Mode Treatment Programs, Wiley-Blackwell, 2014 and the DVD Set: Group Schema Therapy: An innovative approach to treating patients with personality disorder, IVAH-Hamburg, 2011
This 3 day Master Class gives you an opportunity to learn Group Schema Therapy (GST) from its developers (Farrell & Shaw,1994, 2009, 2012, 2014). The unique GST model integrates their original group work with Young’s individual Schema Therapy (ST)(Young, Klosko and Weishar2003). GST strategically uses the therapeutic factors of the group modality to catalyze the work of schema mode change. GST is an innovative approach to ST that goes far beyond traditional group therapy models; furthermore, it does not simply incorporate individual ST interventions into a group format, rather, has developed new adaptations of ST interventions for the group modality. The central idea behind GST is that the group members, with the guidance of the therapists, add sibling socialization to the reparenting the therapists provide providing a “re-family” corrective emotional experience. As part of this group corrective emotional process patients do imagery and roleplaying exercises in which they take on the roles of each group member’s various modes (e.g., the Detached Protector, the Healthy Adult, Punitive Parent) and ultimately heal them. The experience of ST in a supportive, validating group can directly impact and heal key schemas such as, abandonment, defectiveness, emotional deprivation, social isolation and mistrust/abuse. Like individual ST, GST improves: stability of self, interpersonal relationships, social, family, and occupational functioning and quality of life. There is considerable research now supporting the effectiveness of the GST approach, including empirical validation from a randomized controlled trial (RCT) (Farrell & Shaw, 2009) and pilot studies conducted in the US, the Netherlands and in Germany (Reiss, Lieb, Arntz, Shaw & Farrell, 2013; ). These studies demonstrated very large positive effects from even a short group treatment of thirty sessions. A large multisite international RCT of GST for Borderline Personality Disorder is in progress in collaboration with Dr. Arnoud Arntz (Wetzelaer, P., Farrell, J., et al., 2014). Outcome studies to evaluate the effectiveness of GST for Cluster C Personality disorders and social phobia (Balje,et al., 2016) and mixed groups of Clusters B & C are being conducted in the Netherlands and Switzerland, which Shaw is providing clinical supervision for. GST was developed with BPD patients but like individual ST it is trans-diagnostic and adaptable to other personality disorders, complex trauma and other challenging populations as well as entrenched maladaptive schema and mode effects in any patients.
The Advanced Master Class is intended for participants who have completed the Introduction to Group ST. Experienced schema therapists with group experience may also attend. It fulfills the advanced level training requirement for certification in Group ST by the International Society for Schema Therapy (ISST). Each six hour training day fulfills one of the module requirements for certification. Module one focuses on interventions to get through the Maladaptive Coping Modes: including the avoidant and overcompensating modes and mastery of group empathic confrontation interventions. Module two focuses on interventions for the Dysfunctional Parent modes and accessing the Healthy Adult mode. Module three focuses on interventions to reach and heal the Child Schema Modes including group imagery rescripting, playful interventions and limited reparenting by child mode. Each module consists of equal parts of didactic with demonstration and practice with observation and coaching. Although the interventions are discussed in terms of their application in Group ST, many are just as applicable to individual and participants report their effectiveness in their individual as well as group work. Their second book provides an entire program of group and individual ST that is appropriate for outpatient and more intensive programs like inpatient and day therapy. This 42 session group program is adaptable for a variety of lengths and is transdiagnostic.
This workshop is part of the curriculum for ISST certification in Group Schema Therapy. You will receive a certificate of attendance upon completion that can be used in the documentation required for that certification.
A quote from the founder of Schema Therapy, Jeffrey Young PhD, after he attended a Farrell-Shaw Workshop:
“Group Schema Therapy has the potential to deliver the powerful treatment strategies of the schema approach in a more cost effective manner than has been possible with individual schema therapy -- with equivalent or perhaps superior results. The experience that the authors have gained over 30 years is evident throughout. The approach Joan and Ida have developed is truly unique, exciting and promising. Joan Farrell is an outstanding schema therapist who serves as the “stable base”, emotional center, and “educator” for the group as a whole – a role I can imagine myself learning to fill, given enough time and experience. What truly amazed me – perhaps because her style is so different from mine and Joan’s -- was the remarkable group work of Ida Shaw. It is hard to convey the level of originality, creativity, and spontaneity she brings to the group experience. She is able to blend elements of gestalt, psychodrama, role- playing, and her own infectious style of play into an approach that perfectly fits the intensive demands of schema mode work, cajoling patients to change in profound ways.”
Jeffrey Young Ph.D. Schema Therapy Institute of New York Columbia University, Department of Psychiatry
Joan Farrell and Ida Shaw are directors of the Schema Therapy Institute Midwest – Indianapolis. Joan is a licensed clinical psychologist, an adjunct professor of clinical psychology, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis and Research Director of the Center for BPD Treatment & Research, Indiana University School of Medicine & Eshkenazi Health where Ida is the Training Director. They regularly provide training internationally and are International Society of Schema Therapy certified Advanced Trainer-Supervisors in individual and group ST. Ida is also the chair of the Child-Adolescent ST Certification committee and an accredited trainer-supervisor in Child-Adolescent ST. Joan was faculty in psychiatry at IUSM for 25 years – training clinical psychologists and psychiatry residents in BPD, trauma and personality disorder treatment. Both have worked with a wide range of trauma and personality disorder patients for over thirty years, including combat veterans, childhood sexual abuse survivors, accident and assault victims, patients with borderline personality disorder, avoidant PD and dissociative disorders and those with chronic or complex disorders in which trauma is involved.
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