Description
Contextual Schema Therapy for Children and Adolescents describes how to adapt schema therapy approaches to help young people with eight common conditions who experience difficulties in areas such as coping, relating and self-image.
The authors explore the schemas and modes that play a specific role in anxiety, depression, OCD, eating disorders, conduct disorder, borderline personality disorder, ADHD and autism, and show how to engage and help young people by adapting schema therapy techniques into fun mode characterisations and playful treatment games.
The book tackles a wide range of unhelpful behaviour patterns by linking them to unmet needs and then addressing them with age-adapted interventions. Contextual Schema Therapy for Children and Adolescents combines CBT, systemic family work, developmental science and experiential techniques in a unique model for helping troubled young people. Examples illustrate each technique, and further resources are also provided.
Audience
Contextual Schema Therapy for Children and Adolescents is for Schema therapists accredited by the International Society for Schema Therapy (ISST). Professionals working in child and adolescent mental health, including in CAMHS services in the UK. Practitioners at all levels of experience including psychologists, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, counsellors, social workers and creative therapists. Clinical researchers and students of CBT and psychotherapy.
Details
Publisher: Illuminate an imprint of Pavilion Publishing and Media Ltd
ISBN: 9781803883168
Expected Publication Date: July 2026
Content
Table of Contents
Foreword by Wendy Behary
Preface
1. Child and Adolescent Psychology and Psychotherapy
2. Schema Therapy for Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
3. Schema Therapy for Conduct Disorder
4. Schema Therapy for Depression
5. Schema Therapy for Anxiety Disorders
6. Schema Therapy for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders
7. Schema Therapy for Eating Disorders
8. Schema Therapy for Autism
9. Schema Therapy for Borderline
Personality Features in Adolescents
Appendix
References
Authors
Christof Loose is a CBT therapist, clinical psychologist and advanced level schema therapist, supervisor and trainer. He sits on the ISST Training and Certification Advisory Board and is Chair of its Child-Adolescent committee. He is widely recognised as the key pioneer in adapting schema therapy for young people.
Peter Graaf is a child and adolescent psychotherapist at the Werner Otto Institute, Hamburg, a family-oriented institution focused on helping children with a range of difficulties.
Gerhard Zarbock is a clinical psychologist, certified CBT-, Schema- and DBT-therapist, and Director of the Institute for Behavioural Therapy Training in Hamburg, Germany.
Alison Bocquee is a Brisbane-based clinical psychologist with extensive experience in working with children, adolescents and adults.
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