title: Interpersonal schemata in child psychotherapy: a cognitive-interpersonal perspective.
abstract: Presents a cognitive-interpersonal framework for child psychotherapy derived from attachment theory. Interpersonal schema, conceptualized as expectations regarding others' probable responses to the self, are posited as a key mediating mechanism linking past interpersonal experience with current social-emotional functioning, and as an important target for intervention. Three schema-based models of pathogenic process are examined: preemptive information-processing, schema-triggered affect, and schema-primed interpersonal and emotion-regulation strategies. Implications for assessment of and intervention with interpersonal schema are considered. Preventive, compensatory, and remedial intervention strategies are proposed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Denver, CO 80208-3306, USA.
authors.forename: S R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Shirk
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development; D002665:Child Psychiatry; D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008960:Models, Psychological; D019964:Mood Disorders / Q000628:therapy; D011613:Psychotherapy; D012649:Self Concept