Events
Events
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CHANGING LIVES: A Symposium Celebrating 35 Years of Jeffrey Young’s Schema Therapy December 4-5, 2025View Event List Item 1
Be part of a once-in-a-lifetime celebration of 35 years of groundbreaking work. On December 4–5, 2025, the greatest minds in Schema Therapy, including Jeffrey Young, unite live online to celebrate 35 years of groundbreaking work. Jeff’s first book was published in 1990, Cognitive Therapy for Personality Disorders: A Schema Focused Approach, followed by the primary Schema Therapy reference, The Schema Therapy Practitioner’s Guide, in 2003. In thirty-five years, Schema Therapy has spread throughout the globe.
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Integrating ABFT and Schema TherapyItem Link
Deepening the Attachment Narrative: Integrating Attachment-Based Family Therapy and Schema Therapy
Speaker:
Paul DelGrosso, LICSW LCSW-C
90 minute webinar recorded on May 12, 2026 - recording available at ABFT International (follow link)
Attachment-Based Family Therapy (ABFT) helps youth and caregivers repair ruptured relationships by addressing intrapsychic processes (Tasks 2 and 3) to prepare family members for new, more productive interpersonal conversations (Tasks 4 and 5). These conversations not only help family members work through relational trauma, but also create corrective attachment experiences where parents care, and children seek care. ABFT draws on multiple psychotherapy strategies, including psychoeducation, mentalization, exposure, and enactment.
Schema Therapy (ST) offers powerful experiential techniques that help clients access vulnerable emotions central to ABFT. ST is an integrative emotion-focused, experiential therapy that addresses self-defeating life patterns (schemas) that develop in childhood in reaction to emotional needs not being met, elaborate over life, and become ingrained in adulthood. When core emotional needs are consistently not met in childhood, dysfunctional ways of coping emerge (modes) that, over time, correlate with specific schema activation (schema-modes). When family members attempt to engage while in reactive mode states (mode clashes) relational engagement becomes difficult.
ABFT provides an essential frame to help caregivers and youth recognize and modify schema-mode activation in their family relationships. ST expands the language of ABFT to include a conceptualization of what underpins attachment-ruptures and how they can be expressed in therapy. ST also provides specific techniques to help reduce resistance and help youth or caregivers explore episodic memories of attachment ruptures uncovering vulnerable emotions.
This webinar presents core ST concepts, explain the rationale for integrating ST with ABFT, demonstrate how to apply specific ST techniques to augment the goals of Task 2 and 3 in ABFT, (through live role plays), and answer questions from attendees.
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*Part 2* Integrating ABFT and Schema TherapyItem Link
Deepening the Attachment Narrative: Integrating Attahment-Based Therapy and Schema Therapy
Speaker:
Paul DelGrosso, LICSW, LCSW-C
90 minute live webinar on Tuesday, September 22, 2:00 - 3:30PM EST.
Follow-up to Part 1 in May 2026.
Part 2 will focus on integrating Task 3 with schema therapy (preparing parents for the emotional deepening work with their youth).
More information to come!
