The Schema Therapy Clinician’s Guide is a complete clinical resource for psychotherapists implementing schema therapy, group schema therapy or a combination of both in a structured, cost-effective way. The authors provide ready-made individual and group sessions with patient hand-outs.
This is a useful book for anyone interested in schema therapy. It adds a little to Jeffrey Young’s book, but doesn’t surpass it. Unfortunately, the structure of the text is a little discombobulated. There are plenty of text boxes of all sorts of descriptions that interrupt the flow of the prose. This does not make for a cohesive read. There are also some cartoon characters that represent different schema modes. The trouble is they’re not very flattering. The Healthy Adult Mode figure looks like a cross between a penis and a turd. I would have sacked the artist. Apart from that, the book describes different maladaptive schemas and offers various strategies to tackle them. In this respect the book serves its purpose. But it really needed a good editor and better artist.