Upcoming Training

Schema Therapy:
A Breakthrough Treatment for Borderline Personality Disorder
Proven Strategies for Our Most Challenging Clients: A Two-day Institute

George Lockwood, Ph.D. Director: Schema Therapy Institute Midwest

• A New, integrative therapy, representing a major expansion of cognitive-behavioral techniques for BPD. You’ll learn to overcome impasses that lead us to feel frustrated, resentful or defeated by these challenging cases.
• Dramatic results. In a major study recently published in a leading psychiatric journal, 70% of patients with Borderline Personality Disorder treated with schema therapy achieved significant improvement across all BPD symptoms, with a very low drop out rate. Schema therapy dramatically reduced suicidality, anger and impulsivity. For the first time, a large percentage of patients with BPD achieved full recovery.
• Deep personality change. Other effective treatments for BPD, such as Dialectic Behavior Therapy, have focused primarily on behavioral change and skill building. Now a proven treatment provides you with strategies for BPD patients that also lead to deep personality change.

Shepherd, Michigan nbsp; &
At the Winding Brook Conference Centre
8240 S. Genuine Road
Shepard, Michigan 60611

Accommodations
A block of rooms has been set aside At the Radisson Chicago Hotel and Suites at a special rate. The cost per night for a single or a double is $129.00. These will be available on a first-come-first-served basis.

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Who Should Attend
This institute is designed for psychologists, social workers, psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses, mental health counselors, graduate students, and other mental health pro-fessionals who are interested in treating BPD.

Previous training in schema therapy is not required to attend. However, we recommend that participants read "Schema Therapy: A Practitioner's Guide," by Jeffrey Young (Guilford Press) to enhance their learning process. In addition to demonstrating the treatment step-by-step, Dr. Young will provide an overview of schema therapy, schema modes, and the philosophy of treatment for BPD.

7 Reasons to Attend

1. Learn a therapy with proven results for treating BPD. In a recent large-scale study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry, schema therapy proved to be highly effective in treating BPD. 70% of BPD patients achieved significant improvement across all BPD symptoms. 45% achieved full recovery; this is the first study to show this is possible for BPD. Schema therapy was found to be more than twice as effective as a well-known psychodynamic approach.
2. Learn to create a strong, constructive therapeutic alliance with BPD patients that is central to treatment success: results show an extremely low dropout rate with BPD patients. You will learn how to avoid common therapist pitfalls in treating BPD.
3. Learn to effectively treat even the most severe symptoms of BPD, including suicidality, cutting, and other dangerous, self-harming behaviors associated with BPD.
4. Learn the concepts of Schema Mode Work, a new advance in schema therapy designed to produce deep and far-reaching personality changes in patients with BPD.
5. Learn to use special questionnaires & assessment methods for BPD patients, including the Young-Atkinson Mode Inventory. Conceptualize patients in easy-to-understand ways that you can share with the patient, and that lead to collaborative, compassionate, and effective interventions.
6. Learn a broad range of change techniques for BPD patients, including: schema flashcards, schema and mode dialogues, imagery and other emotion-focused techniques, limited reparenting, and behavioral pattern-breaking.
7. View extensive videotaped segments of actual patients that demonstrateschema mode strategies.

About the Presenters   | Training Agenda  |   Continuing Education