Schema therapy is a form of integrative psychotherapy developed by Jeffrey E. Young for treating personality disorders and other chronic conditions such as long-term depression, anxiety and eating disorders. Its basic premise is that invalid assumptions and mental representations, called schemas, hinder a person's psychological functioning, and the therapy aims to identify, challenge and adjust those assumptions.
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Central QuestionHow do invalid assumptions and mental representations, or schemas, hinder a person's psychological functioning, and how can therapy challenge and adjust them? 1 Founded YearEarliest publication of Young's schema-focused approach cited in the live source article; the field's practitioner's guide (Young, Klosko, Weishaar) followed in 2003. Connections
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Its basic assumption is that invalid assumptions and mental representations (schemas) hinder one's psychological functioning. Schema therapy aims to challenge and adjust those assumptions.
Wikipedia, Schema therapy, Bibliography
Young, Jeffrey E; Klosko, Janet S (1993). Reinventing your life: the breakthrough program to end negative behavior... and feel great again. New York: Plume.
Associated With: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Theoretical background section
Schema therapy is an integrative psychotherapy combining original theoretical concepts and techniques with those from pre-existing models, including cognitive behavioral therapy, attachment theory, Gestalt therapy, constructivism, post-rationalist cognitive therapy, and psychodynamic psychotherapy.
Associated With: Gestalt Therapy, Theoretical background section
Schema therapy is an integrative psychotherapy combining original theoretical concepts and techniques with those from pre-existing models, including cognitive behavioral therapy, attachment theory, Gestalt therapy, constructivism, post-rationalist cognitive therapy, and psychodynamic psychotherapy.
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In what year did Jeffrey E. Young first formulate schema therapy as a distinct approach?
Wikipedia's Schema therapy article documents the approach's theoretical concepts, techniques and outcome studies in detail but names no year or founding publication for when Young first developed it; a Wikipedia page for Jeffrey E. Young himself does not exist to check further (fetched live this session, page missing).
What would resolve this A source identifying the specific year or publication that the field treats as schema therapy's founding moment.
history of psychotherapyWikipedia: Schema therapy
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