“Rewriting Fear: Schema‑Based Strategies for Childhood Anxiety”
Children with anxiety often struggle not only with fear, but with deeper emotional patterns—early schemas—shaped by temperament, attachment experiences, and the family environment. Schema Therapy offers a developmentally sensitive framework that helps clinicians understand why certain fears persist and what unmet needs lie beneath worry, avoidance, and emotional overwhelm.
Also, performance anxiety, in particular, is frequently maintained by schemas such as Failure, Unrelenting Standards, Approval‑Seeking, and Defectiveness/Shame. Schema Therapy offers a developmentally sensitive lens to understand why these fears take hold and how to meet the core needs beneath them.
This workshop focuses on applying Schema Therapy principles to children and preteens with anxiety.
What this workshop covers:
- Understanding common schemas dispositions in anxious children (Vulnerability, Failure, Punitiveness, Dependence, Approval‑Seeking) and in performance anxiety (Failure, Unrelenting Standards, Approval‑Seeking, and Defectiveness/Shame
- Recognizing the modes involved and the coping strategies
- Case formulation using a child-friendly schema model
- Developmentally appropriate techniques: Mode work, therapeutic storytelling, imagery work, play-based interventions
- Clear models for involving parents and shifting family patterns that maintain anxiety
- Practical, creative techniques to reduce avoidance strategies
- Adapting strategies for performance anxiety in children and demanding parents
- Developing the Wise Mode skills support confidence and autonomy
This workshop blends theory with hands on exercises, demonstrations, and case discussions to help you apply Schema Therapy effectively in real world clinical work with anxious children.
Trainer: Phd. Diana Teodorescu, Romania
- Trainer and Supervisor in ST-CA , ST-Individual and Group-ST, ISST certified
- CBT Trainer and Supervisor, IFTECC Iasi, EABCT affiliated
- Clinical Psychologist and Psychotherapist
- Associate Professor at A.I. Cuza University-Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy Department
Diana has over 20 years of experience of clinical evaluation, individual and group therapy for children and adolescents, workshops for parents and teachers in schools and in private practice. As a Trainer and Associate Professor she also has 20 years of teaching and training experience in 2 Universities (Undergraduate and Post-graduate Programs), in several National Educational Programs, in CBT Training Programs and Schema Therapy Training Programs and workshops world-wide.
Diana is also focused on her continuing education being trained in ACT for children and adolescents, DBT for Children and adolescents, Psychodrama for children and adolescents.
Duration: 16 hours (12 h ISST continuing education Certificate)
Dates: coming soon
Time: coming soon
Language: English
Price: 300 euros
Where: on line via Zoom
Registration: In order to register, please fill out this form: coming soon
After registering you will get an email with the Application form for ISST Certificate and the payment details. Your place is not guaranteed until payment is received.
Cancellation Policy: For cancellations: Up to 14 working days in advance, payment will be refunded, minus a 50 Euros administration fee. No refunds will be made under 14 working days prior to the commencement of the event. However, workshop positions are transferable to another person.
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