Responding to the treatment challenge of patients with severe BPD: results of three pilot studies of
inpatient schema therapy
If you are treating severely impaired BPD patients, who suffer from symptoms that make outpatient treatment dangerous to you as a therapist or your patient, referring your patient to an intensive
inpatient Schema Therapy treatment program is an option to consider.
Few specialized
inpatient Schema Therapy treatment programs, combining elements of individual and group Schema Therapy, exist, and these need to be evaluated to determine their effectiveness.
In this brief summary, Neele Reiss (lead author of the recent report on three pilot studies testing
inpatient schema therapy) tells us about the development, and empirical status, of this exciting mode of delivering schema therapy to patients with BPD.
Not exact matches
Method: Adults aged between 18 and 70 with complex trauma participated in a four week group
schema therapy inpatient program in a private psychiatric hospital.
Originally conceptualized to work with outpatients
Schema Therapy can very well be adapted for working with
inpatients.
In conjunction with Professors Joan Farrell and Ida Shaw, Rita implemented an
inpatient and outpatient Group
Schema Therapy Department at a private psychiatric hospital in Melbourne, Australia.
This workshop presents the main characteristics of
Schema Therapy for
inpatients and shows some of the main differences to working with outpatients.
Nadine's team is applying for auxiliary professionals certification and plans to begin a
Schema Therapy certified
inpatient treatment program.
After finishing his PhD he's been in the last years conducting clinical research projects regarding
schema therapy with
inpatients.
For example, depression and bipolar disorder (mood disorders) are very responsive to drug
therapy — substance abuse often requires intervention and
inpatient detoxification — personality disorders require multi-year re-learning
therapies (e.g. DBT,
Schema)-- Aspergers is often considered a long term disability.