Combining Schema-Focused Cognitive Therapy and Psychodrama: A Model for Treating Clients With Personality Disorders
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In this article, the author reviews the historical interface between behavior therapies and psychodrama, noting their mutually enhancing elements. She proposes an integration of those elements as a vehicle for providing brief, yet intensive therapy for difficult-to-treat clients, such as those with personality disorders. With a review of relevant principles of psychodramatic practice, she clarifies the compatibility of the 2 types of therapy with basic learning theory concepts. The author provides an overview of schema-focused cognitive therapy, including findings on the validity of Young's schema questionnaire. She also presents and discusses a model for the presentation of schema-focused cognitive therapy through the medium of psychodrama.
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