The PRISMAS Group Therapy Handbook

A Brief Intervention Integrating Affirmative and Schema Therapy for Sexual and Gender Minorities
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-91808-7
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 149 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 422 g

This handbook presents and describes how to apply the PRISMAS Group Therapy, a brief intervention that combines Affirmative and Schema Therapy for Sexual and Gender Minorities (SGM). PRISMAS is a new therapeutic intervention that builds upon the concepts of Schema Therapy to create a brief group intervention aimed at helping SGM cope with the stress and prejudice they have internalized by living in societies that stigmatize and attack the LGBTQIA+ community. This intervention manual provides a detailed breakdown of the 12 therapeutic sessions in which the intervention is organized, showing practitioners how to conduct it.

will be an invaluable resource for psychotherapists, clinical psychologists and other mental health professionals working with Sexual and Gender Minorities.

– Wendy Behary, Former President, The International Society of Schema Therapy (ISST)

– Xi Liu, Co-Director, SchemXcollective: Integrative Schema Institute Sydney, Australia

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cardoso, Bruno Luiz Avelino

Braga, Ana Clara Gomes

Weitere Mitwirkende

Liu, Xi

Behary, Wendy

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychotherapie / Klinische Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Sexualpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Part I. Initial Sessions: Understanding Schema Therapy and my internal way of functioning.- Chapter 2. "Connecting with my network and understanding my way of functioning": Bond creation and self-monitoring.- Chapter 3. "Getting to know my different sides": Presentation of modes.- Chapter 4. "How society influenced the criticisms that I internalized about myself": inner critic modes, minority stress, and prejudice against sexual and gender diversity.- Chapter 5. "Knowing and highlighting my strengths": Strengthening the affirmative healthy adult mode.- Chapter 6. "Connecting with my history": Deepening self-knowledge about how what I went through influenced who I am.- Part II. Intermediate Sessions: Changing my way of thinking, acting, and feeling through the integration of Schema Therapy and Affirmative Therapy.- Chapter 7. "I think, therefore I (do not) criticize myself": Cognitive strategies for coping with the inner critic (oppressive sociocultural) mode.- Chapter 8. "The child who lives in me": Welcoming the child modes.- Chapter 9. "Where does this internal storm come from? Understanding my emotions": Emotion-focused strategies for understanding and regulating various modes.- Chapter 10. "Allowing myself a new way of feeling": Experiential strategies for coping with the inner critic (oppressive sociocultural) mode.- Chapter 11. "Acting as the person I aspire to be": Behavioral strategies for coping with the inner critic (oppressive sociocultural) mode.- Part III. Final Sessions: Consolidating and strengthening my Affirmative Healthy Adult and having fun with my Happy Child.- Chapter 12. "Connecting our individual strengths to health and affirmation": Building the healthy adult connected to the social group.- Chapter 13. "Releasing the happy child": Allowing the expression of creativity and fun for the group’s closure.- Chapter 14. Final Considerations.

Über Autor(innen)

Bruno Luiz Avelino Cardoso is Adjunct professor in the Department of Psychology and in the Graduate Program in Psychology: Cognition and Behavior at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. Head of the Laboratory for Studies and Interventions in Cognitive and Contextual Therapies - LaEIC-UFMG. Certified cognitive therapist and member of the doctoral group of the Brazilian Federation of Cognitive Therapies (FBTC). President of the Brazilian Association of Schema Therapy (ABTE, 2024-2026 term) and of the Association of Cognitive Therapies of Minas Gerais (ATC-Minas, 2023-2025 term). He has training in teaching and supervising cognitive-behavioral therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy for couples and affirming LGBT lived experience from the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy (Philadelphia, USA). PhD in Psychology (social behavior and cognitive processes) from the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), Brazil, with a doctoral stay period at Pennsylvania State University and support from the São Paulo State Research Foundation (FAPESP). He holds a master’s degree in psychology (clinical and health processes) from the Federal University of Maranhão (UFMA), Brazil, with a research internship on violence and social skills at UFSCar. Specialist in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) at the WP Institute (IWP/Faccat) and in human sexuality at the Child Behavior Institute of Miami. Trained in Schema Therapy (Wainer/NYC Institute for Schema Therapy) and in Schema Therapy for Couples (Institute of Theory and Research in Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapy – ITPC, Brazil). Supervisor of clinical practice in Cognitive and Contextual Therapies and author of books and resources in the areas of cognitive-behavioral therapies, schema therapy and relationships.

Ana Clara Gomes Braga is a psychologist graduated from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. She holds a master's degree in Psychology: Cognition and Behavior at UFMG. Member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Cognitive Therapies of Minas Gerais (ATC-Minas). Member of the Laboratory for Studies and Interventions in Cognitive and Contextual Therapies - LaEIC-UFMG. Specialist in Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul). Training in Cognitive Sex Therapy. Trained in Schema Therapy (Wainer/NYC Institute for Schema Therapy). Currently undergoing training in Schema Therapy for Couples (Institute of Theory and Research in Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapy – ITPC, Brazil). Certified Mindfulness instructor.