Schema Therapy Bulletin

Issue 14

 Approaches to Family Work Using Schema Therapy

Greetings! In Issue 14 we bid Chris Hayes a fond farewell, and welcome Susan Simpson to the role as Secretary of the ISST board, and co-editor of the Schema Therapy Bulletin.

This issue highlights the innovation of our membership in using Schema Therapy to work with families and family issues in different ways. Dr. Phil. Anousha Hadinia & Dipl.-Psych. Jan Kossack, in their article Schema-Mode-based Family Therapy: a multigenerational & intercultural approach describe their work integrating schemas and modes into Andolfi’s family therapy approach to create a Schema Mode Based, multigenerational family therapy. Using Young’s Schema Questionnaire, and the Loose, Graaf & Zarbock Schema Questionnaire designed for children, along with a number of creative experiential techniques, they work on healing families by healing schemas.

In his article, Schema Coaching for Parents, Christof Loose outlines how by working with parents to understand their own schemas and modes, as well as the origins of these schemas/modes, therapists can help parents to learn to meet their own needs in addition to those of their child. This work helps to heal parents’ early maladaptive schemas so that parents are less likely to parent in response to their own triggers, and be better able to meet their children’s core needs. Loose illustrates this through a case presentation.

Finally, Matthias Krüger, in his article Imaginative Family-Constellation -Description of the Method and Case study, uses a case presentation to demonstrate a protocol creating an Imaginative Family-Constellation to rescript painful or traumatic childhood experiences, with the goal of relieving a patient of the burden of enmeshment with her family of origin. This approach draws from the work of Bert Hellinger’s conceptualisation of the family constellation.

For our Meet the Board Column, Vivian Francesco shares an interview she carried out with Susanne Vind, the new Vice President of the ISST.

Our next issue will feature presentations from the recent ENLIGHT 2019 Symposium held in Edinburgh in May 2019.

If you have an idea for an article for a future issue of the Schema Therapy Bulletin, or an event that you would like listed in the Bulletin’s Calendar please let us know!

Lissa Parsonnet (USA) and Susan Simpson (Scotland),

Co-Editors

In This Issue

Imaginative
Family-Constellation

Matthias Krüger, Germany

Schema Coaching for Parents

Christof Loose, Germany

Schema Mode Based
Family Therapy

Anousha Hadinia, Switzerland & Jan Kossak, Luxembourg

Interview with Susanne Vind

Vivian Francesco, USA