We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
To save content items to your account,
please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies.
If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account.
Find out more about saving content to .
To save content items to your Kindle, first ensure no-reply@cambridge.org
is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings
on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part
of your Kindle email address below.
Find out more about saving to your Kindle.
Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations.
‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi.
‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.
Experiential techniques are central to schema therapy. Moreover, they can be synergetic to changes within cognitive or behavioural domains, or within the therapy relationship. Nonetheless, they are often challenging and are omitted from the schema therapy treatment. Typically, experiential work comes in the form of chairwork or imagery-based interventions or ‘dialogues’. Imagery Rescripting is a powerful experiential method and a central change mechanism in schema therapy; it aims to change the legacy of childhood experiences, images, and memories linked to schema and mode development; rescripting results in the formation of new adaptive meanings and access to feelings and insights. In contrast, a chairwork technique is highly suitable within a schema therapy context, enhancing schema mode work. First, chairwork can result in a more distinct and clear illustration to the client of mode interplay. Second, it allows the client to take the ‘perspective’ of the mode and make dysfunctional modes and schemas as ego-dystonic and defused. Often emotional techniques are avoided by therapists learning the schema therapy model, typically related to confidence in interventions and making things ‘worse’ for the client. It is essential for the schema therapist to learn to utilise emotion-focused work to be helpful for the client.
Recommend this
Email your librarian or administrator to recommend adding this to your organisation's collection.