Deliberate Practice in Schema Therapy

Wendy T. Behary, MSW, LCSW, is the founder and director of The Cognitive Therapy Center of New Jersey and The Schema Therapy Institutes of NJ-NYC-DC. She was also the President of the International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST) from 2 amp ndash 2 4. She is the author of Disarming the Narcissist: Surviving and Thriving with the Self-Absorbed (New Harbinger Publications). She has been treating narcissist clients, their partners and associates, and couples experiencing relationship problems training professionals and supervising psychotherapists for over 2 years. She lectures internationally to professional and general audiences on schema therapy and on narcissism and relationships.

Joan M. Farrell, PhD, is a clinical psychologist and Adjunct Professor of Psychology and Research Director of the Center for Borderline Personality Disorder Treatment and Research at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. She directs the Schema Therapy Institute Midwest-Indianapolis. She has been training psychologists and psychotherapists internationally for 4 years. She developed a group model of schema therapy with Ida Shaw, and they wrote two books on this model for borderline and other personality disorders (Wiley Blackwell). Their latest book is Experiencing Schema Therapy From the Inside-Out: A Self-Practice/Self-Reflection Workbook for Therapists (Guilford Press). Visit https://www.schematherapy-training.com/.

Alexandre Vaz, PhD, is director of training at the Sentio Marriage and Family Therapy graduate program and Sentio Counseling Center. He has authored many books on deliberate practice and psychotherapy training and is coeditor of the book series The Essentials of Deliberate Practice (APA Books). Dr. Vaz has held multiple committee roles for the Society for the Exploration of Psychotherapy Integration (SEPI) and the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR). He is founder and host of amp ldquo Psychotherapy Expert Talks, amp rdquo an acclaimed interview series with distinguished psychotherapists and researchers.

Tony Rousmaniere, PsyD, is program director of the Sentio Marriage and Family Therapy graduate program, and executive director of the Sentio Counseling Center. He has authored many books on deliberate practice and psychotherapy training and is coeditor of the book series The Essentials of Deliberate Practice(APA Books). In 2 7, Dr. Rousmaniere published the widely cited article in The Atlantic Monthly, amp ldquo What Your Therapist Doesn amp rsquo t Know. amp rdquo Dr. Rousmaniere supports the open-data movement and publishes clinical outcome data at drtonyr.com. He is president of Division 29 of APA.