Kursholder: Remco van der Wijngaart

Arrangør: Norsk Forum for Skjematerapi i samarbeid med Norsk Forening for Kognitiv Terapi

Sted: Gaustad sykehus, Store auditorium

Dato: 11 – 12. september 2025

Kursavgift: 5 000,- (inkluderer lunsj)

Påmeldingsfrist: 10. august 2025

For a long time, the emphasis in literature and education about schema therapy was placed on processing the dysfunctional parent and coping modes and validating the needs of patients’ Vulnerable Child mode. Although strengthening the Healthy Adult was mentioned as the ultimate goal of the treatment, there was very little specific attention for this mode. Often there is insufficient explanation of what exactly the client’s ‘Healthy Adult’ is, what that modus does exactly, how the client can learn to connect with this part of themselves and how this healthy mode can be strengthened in therapy.

It is only in the last few years that there has been more attention to this Healthy Adult mode in educational programmes and congresses about schema therapy and in publications about schema therapy. How important it is to focus attention on this mode was shown in the study by Yakin et al. (2020). Recent research data reveals that specifically strengthening this Healthy Adult mode in combination with validating the basic needs of the Vulnerable Child is an important predictor for the effectiveness of therapy.

In this 2-day workshop, we will focus on the healthy modes that seem to be so vitally important for the effectiveness of schema therapy; the child modes and the Healthy Adult mode. During the 2 days we will address the following questions:

• How do we validate the different, and sometimes opposing core emotional needs of the child modes?
• How should be conceptualize the Healthy Adult?
• How can you strengthen the Healthy Adult?

The workshop will have a practical and lively character. Various methods and techniques that can help the therapist strengthen this healthy, essential part of the client will be demonstrated and practised.