Healing Childhood Wounds
Enhancing Healthy Coping for Adults
What you'll learn
- Understand the concept of schemas and their effect
- Recognize the domains of early maladaptive schemas
- Understand the abandonment schema and the emotional deprivation and mistrust schemas
- Recognize the shame, isolation, and dependence schemas
- Understand the failure, self-sacrifice, and restriction schemas
- Learn ways to treat thinking schemas
- Understand the assessment stage and the stage of changing schema patterns
- Understand the therapeutic relationship and breaking behavioral patterns
About this course
This course teaches healing childhood wounds in adults: the psychological and emotional effects that negative childhood experiences leave on our present lives, based on schema theory. You start with the introduction and course outline, then the concept of schemas and their effect, and the domains of early maladaptive schemas. Next you get to know the schema types one by one, such as abandonment, mistrust, emotional deprivation, shame, social isolation, dependence, failure, self-sacrifice, and unrelenting standards. Then you move to treating thinking schemas and the stages of treatment, which are the assessment stage and the stage of changing schema patterns, along with the therapeutic relationship and breaking behavioral patterns. The course includes a workbook to download. It suits anyone who wants to understand themselves, their reactions, and their relationships, as well as people interested in psychology, and it needs no previous experience. It is a course for awareness and understanding and does not replace seeing a specialist when needed. By the end, you will be able to recognize the schemas that affect you, understand their causes, and know how to deal with them.
Expected outcomes
- Overcome the psychological effects of the past and emotional wounds.
- Understand and change negative psychological schemas.
- Acquire tools and strategies to improve mental health.
- Enhance self-esteem and build a stable mental life.
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Course content
1Healing Childhood Wounds and Breaks
13 lectures
- Introduction and Course OverviewIntroduction to the childhood wounds healing course and its topics: understanding childhood wounds and their impact on personality, maladaptive cognitive schemas with their causes and treatment, and the benefit for individuals and parents.7:53
- Concept and Impact of Cognitive SchemasExplains what a cognitive schema is and how it forms from negative childhood experiences like neglect, criticism and overprotection, its effect on thinking and behavior, and how meeting core needs prevents maladaptive schemas.18:17
- Areas of Early Non-Adaptive SchemasExplains the domains of early maladaptive schemas and their causes: frustrated needs, trauma and excessive gratification, the disconnection and rejection domain, the impaired limits domain, and what appears in people of each domain.16:06
- Types of Schemas and Explanation of the Abandonment SchemaExplains the abandonment and instability schema, the first in the disconnection and rejection domain: a constant fear of losing loved ones, its childhood causes, and ways of prevention, treatment and managing anger and stress.19:43
- Schemas of Caution/Violation/Emotional DeprivationExplains the mistrust or abuse schema and the emotional deprivation schema from the disconnection and rejection domain: their traits, causes, how to deal with those who have them, and how parents can avoid them by giving children time and attention.18:09
- Schemas of Shame/Isolation/Dependency/Fear of IllnessExplains the schemas of shame, isolation, dependence and fear of illness, how they grow from constant negative judgment in childhood and a lack of training in independence, and how they can turn into phobias.17:29
- Schemas of Fusion/Failure/Lack of Self-Control/Restriction/SacrificeCovers the enmeshment, failure and insufficient self-control schemas, showing how people with the failure schema see themselves as lesser than others, and how overcontrolling, cold or absent parents help create these patterns.20:43
- Schemas of Gratitude/Negativity/Emotional Control/Ideal RequirementsExplains the schemas of negativity, emotional inhibition, unrelenting standards and punitiveness within the fifth domain of the 18 schemas, and links missing limits in parenting to entitlement and weak self-discipline.19:58
- Schema Thinking TherapyIntroduces schema therapy and its goals: restoring awareness of the schema, correcting cognitive distortions, breaking the cycle that reinforces the schema, and changing behavior in relationships to weaken it.16:47
- Stages of Therapy (Assessment Stage)Explains the assessment phase of schema therapy: understanding the schema and the coping style, using dialogue and questionnaires, combining several diagnostic methods, and why avoidance or overcompensation makes diagnosis harder.7:32
- Stages of Therapy (Schema Pattern Change Stage)Explains the schema pattern change phase: using cognitive, emotional and behavioral techniques flexibly to suit the client, sending positive messages that counter childhood ones, and why changing the subconscious takes time.15:38
- The Therapeutic RelationshipExplains the therapeutic relationship and the stage of building self-control and independence, re-enacting parental situations within sessions, and using imagery and letters to reprogram mental images and build secure attachment.14:44
- Breaking and Disrupting Behavioral PatternsPresents ways to break behavioral patterns: listening and testing thoughts, flashcards, schema diaries and behavioral homework, then the therapy relationship, and the view of the past as experience to learn from while living in the present.13:06
2Attachments
1 attachments
- Download the Workbook
Instructor
Dr. Dina Al-Jayar
