1. Jeff Riggenbach, PhD, LPC
An Introduction to Schema Therapy: A Breakthrough Treatment for Personality Disorders
Jeff Riggenbach, PhD, LPC

2. Overview of Seminar Introduction Outcome Research Treatment Model
Case Studies

3. Borderline Personality Disorder
OUTCOME STUDIES

4. Borderline Personality Disorder Outcome Studies
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy
- Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
- MBT/TFP
- Schema-Focused Therapy

5. Borderline Personality Disorder
The Treatment Model
How many familiar w j young/schema therapy?

6. Definitions
Term “Schema” originally coined by Piaget in 1926 – “structures that inte-grate meaning into events” 6

7. Definitions Core beliefs/Schemas
Beck – “Cognitive structures that organize experience and behavior”
Landau and Goldfried -- a mental filter that guides processing of information 7

8. Young – “Early Maladaptive Schema”
SFT - Tenets
Young – “Early Maladaptive Schema”
18 Schemas grouped into 5 schema domains
Domain # 1: Disconnection & Rejection
Abandonment
Mistrust
Defectiveness
Emotional Deprivation
Social Isolation 8

9. Young – “Early Maladaptive Schema”
SFT - Tenets
Young – “Early Maladaptive Schema”
Domain # 2: Impaired autonomy and Performance
Dependence
Vulnerability
Enmeshment
Failure 9

10. Young – “Early Maladaptive Schema”
SFT - Tenets
Young – “Early Maladaptive Schema”
Domain # 3: Impaired Limits
Entitlement/Grandiosity
Insufficient Self-Control 10

11. Young – “Early Maladaptive Schema”
SFT - Tenets
Young – “Early Maladaptive Schema”
Domain # 4: Others Directedness
Subjugation
Self-Sacrifice
Approval-Seeking 11

12. Young – “Early Maladaptive Schema”
SFT - Tenets
Young – “Early Maladaptive Schema”
Domain # 5: Overvigilance
Negativity/Pessimism
Emotional Inhibition
Unrelenting standards/hypercriticalism
Punitiveness 12

13. Borderline Personality Disorder Schema Modification Treatment
CASE STUDIES/INTERVENTIONS

14. Schema Modification Interventions
- Behavioral Pattern Breaking
- Data Logs
- Internalization Exercises
- Collection of Historical Data
- Schema Mode Work
See H.O # 1 14

15. - Detached Protector Mode -Healthy Adult Mode
BPD Schema Modes
- Abandoned Child Mode
- Angry Child Mode
- Impulsive Child Mode
- Critical Parent Mode
- Detached Protector Mode
-Healthy Adult Mode
See H.O # 1 15

16. QUESTIONS???

17. THANK YOU!