Schema therapy is a model of psychotherapy. It is defined as a theoretical and practical model for the explanation and treatment of psychological disorders that are difficult to change and have clear origins in childhood and adolescence.
What is Schema Therapy?
Schema therapy, It is a holistic psychotherapy model that functionally combines many psychotherapy and developmental models. In the holistic structure; cognitive, behavioral, psycho-dynamic, attachment and gestalt models (gestalt; psychology theory focused on "perception" and "perceptual organization" within cognitive processes). While trying to understand people and their problems and to find solutions to these problems, schema therapy uses a very broad perspective.
Schema therapy; accepts thought and behavior structures as vital in the therapy process; it also gives equal weight to the relationship between emotional change, experimental techniques and therapy.
The aim of schema therapy is to find a solution to chronic personality problems (such as borderline personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder). However, at the point where schema therapy is reached, it is applied in clinical problems and disorders such as chronic depression, childhood traumas, criminals, eating disorders, couple studies, substance use.
Schema therapy is a humane approach. It normalizes psychological disorders rather than pathologizing them. Accordingly, we all have schemas (structures that form the basis for psychological problems), coping styles (ways of coping with schemas), and modes (structures consisting of many schemas and coping styles).
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