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Schema Therapy - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Limited reparenting (Care, give direction, empathetic cofrontation, limit setting)
      - Cognitive (Thought challenging, mindfulness)
      - Experiential (Naming modes, chair work, imagery rescripting, therapeutic letter writing)
        
        Imagery rescripting
        
        Adjust old dysfunctional schemas by rescripting childhood memories, therefore, building new and functional schemas
        
        Can access affect/experience that are not accessible via "talk"
        
        Key principles:
        
        Attachment and bonding (therapist is model of healthy adult)
        
        Corrective experience meeting need of client (Adjust style of imagery based on the needs of the child in the image)
        
        What images are rescripted?
        
        Flashbacks
        
        Key traumas
        
        Top 5 worst memories
        
        This is done through floatbacks
        
        Client memory of being in a vulnerable state, right before the trauma occurs, therapist/adult client meets the childs emotional needs.
        
        Therapist can rescript (Stage 1)
        Client can rescript (Stage 2)
        
        General Sequence:
        
        Start with a safe place
        
        Recent upsetting event
        
        Focus on the upsetting emotions triggered by that event
        
        Link those emotions to a childhood image
        
        Questions: Where are you? how old are you? Who are you with? Does anyone care? What do you see/hear/feel?
        
        Move away from cognitive and towards affect
        
        What does the child need?
        
        Rescript that image
        
        Go back to the safe place
        
        Debrief
        
        Goals of Rescripting
        
        Client is empowered, strengthened and has mastered the situation
        
        Validate emotional needs
        
        Reattribute difficulties to external antagonists or situations
        
        Possibility of retraumatisation
        
        Trauma is not relived, stop the initial script before traumatic experience.
        
        Focus on the Corrective emotional experience
      - Behavioural (Bringing it all together)
- - - - Core beliefs = the CONTENT that is indicative of a persons schema
  - - - Attend to the needs to the child mode within the client
    - - What the client does to cope with stress
      - 3 coping modes
        
        Overcompensation
        
        Aggression; Dominance; Recognition-seeking; Manipulation; Passive-aggresiveness; Excessive orderliness (Examples of overcompensation)
        
        Surrender
        
        Complinace, dependence
        
        Avoidance
        
        Social witdrawal; Compulsive stimulus-seeking; Addictive self-soothing; Psychological withdrawal (Dissociation, numbness, denial)
    - - The maladaptive/adaptive parental voice leading to positive or negative emotions
    - - Strengthen
- - - - Follow the affect
      - Follow up situation, thought, feeling, with "How does this feeling make you feel about yourself"
      - Downward arrow technique: E.g. Others will see that I am red --> It means that others will wonder what is wrong --> They'll think I'm weird