Contextual Schema Therapy for Children and Adolescents How to Work with Diagnosed Populations and their Differences

Contextual Schema Therapy for Children and Adolescents: How to Work with Diagnosed Populations and their Differences describes how to adapt schema therapy approaches to help young people with eight common conditions who experience difficulties in areas such as coping, relating and self-image. The authors explore the schemas and modes that play a specific role in anxiety, depression, OCD, eating disorders, conduct disorder, borderline personality disorder, ADHD and autism, and show how to engage and help young people by adapting schema therapy techniques into fun mode characterisations and playful treatment games. Examples illustrate each technique, and further resources are also provided. Tackling a wide range of unhelpful behaviour patterns by linking them to unmet needs and then addressing them with age-adapted interventions, Disorder Specific Schema Therapy for Children and Adolescents combines CBT, systemic family work, developmental science and experiential techniques in a unique model for helping troubled young people.

PETER GRAAF is a child and adolescent psychotherapist at the Werner Otto Institute, Hamburg, a family-oriented institution focused on helping children with a range of difficulties. GERHARD ZARBOCK is a clinical psychologist, certified CBT-, Schema- and DBT-therapist, and Director of the Institute for Behavioural Therapy Training in Hamburg, Germany. CHRISTOF LOOSE is a CBT therapist, clinical psychologist and advanced level schema therapist, supervisor and trainer. He sits on the ISST Training and Certification Advisory Board and is Chair of its Child-Adolescent committee. He is widely recognised as the key pioneer in adapting schema therapy for young people. ALISON BOCQUEE is a Brisbane-based clinical psychologist with extensive experience in working with children, adolescents and adults.