This workshop will provide an introduction to the schema and mode model, specific relationship design ("limited parental care"), and experiential activation techniques (imagination and chair dialogues).

In this workshop, schema activation through imagining, cognitive reappraisal using the schema mode memo, and in the design of behavioral experiments through diaries will be learned and practiced in small groups.

In therapy, patients learn to recognize the modes and resolve conflicts through inner dialogues from the perspective of the "healthy adult." A central technique for this is dialogues on several chairs, borrowed from Gestalt therapy. In this process, the therapist takes on an actively facilitating role in the sense of "limited parental care".

The schema therapy case conception is a central element of the schema therapy process. It is created together with the patient at the beginning of the therapy from the anamnestic data and, if necessary, the questionnaire results. On the one hand, this consolidates the working relationship and allows important information to be communicated to the patients. On the other hand, in the further course of therapy, the case concept serves as a common point of reference to which both can refer in schema activation situations and thereby achieve clarification of the process. Important aspects for the design of the whole therapy as well as individual lessons are conveyed....