Understanding schemamodi by drawings

The current study was developed to evaluate the effect of the modi drawings on treatment outcome. We hypothesize that patients within the art modi group have more knowledge of their modi, which in turn will lead to a better understanding of ¡°why they act as they do¡±. During the first phase of ST (diagnostic and psycho-educational phase of ST) a therapeutic relationship will be built. Additionally information that will result in a schema modi conceptualization will be acquired. We also hypothesize that the therapeutic alliance increases when participants feel their therapist understands them in the therapeutic sessions.

session 1: Schema Modi Inventory (SMI) and the Work Alliance Questionary will be filled in by the participants

session 2: Questionary Understanding schemamodi

session 4: Work Alliance Questionary and the Questionary Understanding schemamodi will be filled in.

Treatment contains four individual sessions in four weeks, one session a week. Each session has a duration of forty-five minutes. During the first session, there is an acquaintance with the therapist and an explanation of the protocol and the participants will be asked to fill in the SMI and the WAV-12 as homework. In session two, the participants gets psycho-education about their active modi based on the SMI-scores. During this session the participants will be asked to fill in the QUS. Participants in the experimental group get the drawings of their active modi after they have filled in the QUS. By means of the drawings the various active modes will be verbally and visually explained. In the control group, participants get the explanation of the modes only in the conversation with the therapist. After session two participants get homework and will be asked to fill in modi diary of their active schemamodi. This will be discussed in the third session with the participants. Also a diagnostics imagination will be done during the third session, to increase the understanding between the patterns of past and present. In the last session, session four, a modi caseconceptualization is made with the participants. At the end of this session, the participants will fill in the WAV-12 and the QUS