Schema Therapy for Adolescents and Young Adults
New Course - April 1, 2026 Start
A PDF certificate will be issued on completion for 16-Hours of CPD/ credit
This training focuses specifically on the use of Schema Therapy with adolescents and young people. The course explores how early maladaptive schemas and coping modes shape identity, relationships, and emotional wellbeing during the critical developmental stage of adolescence. Participants will learn practical strategies for working with common presentations in youth—such as social withdrawal, perfectionism, emotional dysregulation, and oppositional behaviours—using the schema mode model. The program highlights creative and experiential methods (imagery, role play, and mode dialogues) adapted for young clients, alongside empathic confrontation, limit-setting, and family involvement when appropriate. Emphasis is placed on strengthening resilience, empowering the Healthy Mode, and supporting young people to build healthier self-concepts and relationships.
A PDF certificate will be issued on completion for 16-Hours of CPD/ credit
Example Video Title
Your Presenter:
Graham Kell:
Clinical Psychologist,
Advanced Accredited Schema Therapist Child/ Adolescent and Adult
Graham Kell is a clinical psychologist based in Australia, an advanced schema therapist (individual schema therapy), an advanced child-adolescent schema therapist, and a supervisor-trainer (child-adolescent schema therapy). Graham works in private practice with a particular interest in helping adolescents and their families. He is also a dad to two adult boys, which has hopefully added wisdom to his work with families! He is a regular speaker at schools to equip teachers, clinical workshops to train therapists, and conferences presenting schema therapy for adolescents.
Curriculum and Course Materials
- Webinar 1.1: Core emotional needs for adolescents and young adults (22:41)
- Webinar 1.2: The biology of autonomy (and the schemas it produces and prevents) (23:34)
- Webinar 1.3: Schema assessment for adolescents and young adults (23:21)
- Resource 1.1: Module 1 slides: Core needs and key schemas
- Resource 1.2: SENSE (Schema and Emotional Needs Screening Exercise)
- Resource 1.3: Coded schema message background
- Resource 1.4: The 4 P's (the meaningful mouthful)
- Webinar 2.1: Healthy modes in adolescents and young adults (21:54)
- Webinar 2.2: Critic and child modes in adolescents and young adults (31:09)
- Webinar 2.3: Coping modes in adolescents and young adults (26:47)
- Resource 2.1: Module 2 slides: Modes in young people
- Resource 2.2: PSP: Personal Strength Profile
- Resource 2.3: When-Then Exercise
- Resource 2.4: (Human) Nature's Coping Responses
- Resource 2.5: Mode conceptualisation paper by David Edwards
- Reflection exercise: My strengths & struggles
- Webinar 5.1: The shift from raising a child to growing an adult
- Webinar 5.2: The Prediction – Protection Circuit (understanding mode clashes)
- Webinar 5.3: The circuit-breakers: Repair and reconnection
- Resource 5.1: Module 5 slides: Working with parents and caregivers
- Resource 5.2: The parenting matrix
- Resource 5.3: Connect Reflect Accept parenting infograph
- Resource 5.4: The prediction-protection circuit