Client Resources
Below is a compilation of some of the more common tools shared at the beginning of a new relationship with a client or workshop attendee.
Positive Behavior Checklist
This is a list of positive behaviors for people in a relationship to do for each other. I regularly use this exercise when I’m working with couples. The form can be used to keep track of positive behaviors requested and done on a daily basis.
Positive Behavior Checklist Guide and Descriptions
When I first started to hand out this form to clients and explain its use it took me about five to ten minutes to explain. Each time I did this I picked up a new analogy or example so that it ultimately took me 45 minutes to get through the explanation. In order to save everyone some time, I wrote up this document that describes how couples can best use the form to make their relationship better.
CARE
This is an article I wrote with my colleague, Mark Glat, of Princeton University. This is a user-friendly framework that helps clients and therapists together to conceptualize psychological problems into four simple categories:
Cognitive (Thinking),
Action,
Relaxation, and
Emotional Expression.
Meditation
In 2008, I gave a presentation at the international conference of the ISST on integrating mindfulness meditation techniques into Schema Therapy. I was then invited to write up my presentation in the form of a chapter for the book The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Schema Therapy: Theory, Research and Practice. This briefly describes seven simple mindfulness techniques that can be used as an adjunct to therapy.
Client’s Guide to Schema Therapy
For many years I’ve been working with Jeffrey Young, creator of Schema Therapy. Together, we wrote an article called A Client's Guide to Schema Therapy. It’s intended to be an introduction for clients who may be new to Schema Therapy, or want to know more about the technique.
Press Mentions
After September 11th, 2001, I found myself doing a lot of trauma work with survivors of the attacks. An article about one of my patients and the work I did with them was printed in the New York Times.