PSYREFLECT

Issue #87

November 2, 2026

#1Research

Twelve sessions for childhood trauma, and the schema modes moved too

“Treating the childhood trauma moved the personality profile, and much of that movement tracked PTSD severity, so the line between the two diagnoses may be thinner than our charts draw it.”

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#2Research

Schema modes after remission and past suicide attempts in bipolar disorder

“In remitted bipolar disorder, a profile of pervasively elevated dysfunctional schema modes went with more past suicide attempts, even though mood symptoms were in remission.”

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#3Tool

A 75-item schema questionnaire built for nursing homes

“In a nursing home schema therapy first runs into the length of the questionnaire, and a 75-item form brings the assessment within reach of a single visit.”

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#4Industry

The American borderline guideline names no winning psychotherapy

“The only 1B statement in the American guideline asks for a structured psychotherapy aimed at the core of the disorder and names no method.”

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#5Industry

The Dutch care standard gives schema therapy a route past borderline personality disorder

“In the Dutch standard, the avoidant client and the older client each have a named schema therapy route.”

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#6Resource

A Russian-language workbook for rehearsing schema therapy responses

“A therapist line built on English syntax and spoken in Russian sounds like a quotation, and clients hear quotation as distance.”

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