Joan Farrell,
Ida Shaw
WS 12-10
The focus of this 2-day workshop is on practicing the advanced interventions of GST. This includes trainer demonstrations, and group role-play practice for participants with observation, coaching and feedback. It also includes exercises to help participants be aware of and work with their schemas and modes that are triggered in the intense environment of the group.
Because the majority of psychotherapist participants have a solid grounding in cognitive therapy, this workshop focuses more heavily on implementing emotion-focused and experiential interventions (e.g. imagery work: including ST imagery rescripting for trauma, group mode role-plays, a psychodrama-like intervention adapted for GST that focuses on the group as a whole rather than individuals).
Just as we adjust GST to meet the needs of the patient-members, we adjust our training to meet the needs of the psychotherapist participants based upon their ST experience and the populations they are working with.
Components usually included in advanced training are:
“Participant choice” role-play practice of group interventions. Participants will alternate taking the therapist role to practice GST interventions with groups of 6-8. This allows participants to try out interventions that they are having difficulty with using in groups or just to try interventions that have been demonstrated and discussed in the training.
Supervision opportunities. Participants can bring in difficult situations they have encountered in practice and they will be worked with in a role-play with the trainers taking on the therapist roles or coaching the presenting therapists trying different interventions
The Advanced Competencies of GST divide into two basic areas: Limited Reparenting in group (connection, bonding and relationship development, changes in therapist role at various stages in the group) and Schema Mode Change interventions. This workshop addresses the advanced level of both areas. Some of the topics included are listed below.
I. Limited Reparenting: a. When the “Honeymoon is over” - dealing with group conflict, group empathic confrontation and limit setting, rebellion, scapegoating, jealousy b. The group’s “adolescence c. Getting the most out of your co-therapy partnership
II. Mode Change Work: a. Advanced facilitation of Group therapeutic factors b. Advanced Cohesion building: “Weaving”: making individual material salient for the group c. Getting through difficult Detached Protector d. Setting limits and empathic confrontation with Modes that disrupt the group: Angry Protector, Bully Attack e. Vulnerable Child healing experiences f. Image rescripting with trauma g. Later stages of Dysfunctional Parent Mode work h. Later phases of group including work on identity and autonomy.
III. When GST triggers therapist schemas and modes. In the group environment our own schemas and modes can be even more powerfully triggered than in individual ST. Awareness of when we are triggered and what is triggering is important for group schema therapists in terms of both their functioning in the therapeutic role and their own personal growth. The advanced workshop includes exercises that facilitate participants experiencing their own modes/schemas being triggered in group work with opportunities to work with these schemas or modes at the level of depth that they feel comfortable with.
480 CHF
16
freie Plätze verfügbar
Farrell, Joan M. / Shaw, Ida A. Group Schema Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder
A Step-by-Step Treatment Manual with Patient Workbook, Wiley 2012