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Emotional Schemas
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DBT Emotional Schemas Questionnaire (LESS), 2000 + Scoring Instructions

Treatment for Children Emotional Schemas Questionnaire II (LESS II), Revised 2012 + Scoring
Adolescents & Young Adults Instructions

In The News Therapist Schemas Questionnaire

Scheduled Events Books, Articles, Chapters, Presentations on Emotional Schemas:
Helpful Links

Recommended Readings Dr. Leahy's workshop on emotional schema therapy at

the 2017 European Association of Behavioural and
Tips of The Week Cognitive Therapies conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia
can be viewed here and here.
Positions Available
May 9, 2016: Dr. Leahy on Emotional Schema Therapy
Weekend Workshops and The Evolution and Future of Cognitive
Therapy. listen to the interview here
Supervision
Leahy, R. L. (2015). Emotional Schema Therapy. Guilford Press: New York.
Photo Gallery

Nutritional Counseling
excerpt: "The Social Construction of Emotion"
Group Therapy
Leahy, R. L., Tirch, D., Napolitano, L. A. (2011). Emotion Regulation in
Mindfulness
Psychotherapy: A Practitioner's Guide. Guilford Press: New York.
excerpt: "Why is Emotion Regulation Important?"
Emotional Schemas
Leahy, R. L. (2012). Introduction: Emotional schemas,
Residential Treatment Centers
emotion regulation, and psychopathology.International
Podcasts and YouTube Videos Journal of Cognitive Therapy, 5(4), 359-361.

Pacientes Hispano Hablantes Leahy, R. L., Tirch, D. D., & Melwani, P. S.

(2012). Processes underlying depression: Risk
aversion, emotional schemas, and psychological
flexibility.International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, 5(4),
362-379.

Tirch, D. D., Leahy, R. L., Silberstein, L. R., & Melwani, P. S. (2012). Emotional
schemas, psychological flexibility, and anxiety: The role of flexible
response patterns to anxious arousal. International Journal of Cognitive
Therapy, 5(4), 380-391.

Silberstein, L., Tirch, D., Leahy, R. L., & McGinn, L. (2012). Mindfulness,
psychological flexibility, and emotional schemas. International Journal of
Cognitive Therapy, 5(4), 406-419.

Leahy, R.L. (in press) Emotional Schema Therapy. In John Livesley,

Giancarlo Dimmagio, and John Clarkin (eds.) Integrated Treatment for
Personality Disorders. Guilford: New York.

Leahy, R. L. (2011). Emotional Schema Therapy: A Bridge over Troubled

Waters. In J. Herbert & E. Forman, Acceptance and Mindfulness in Cognitive
Behavior Therapy.

Leahy, R. L. (2010). Personal Schemas in the Negotiation Process: A

Cognitive Therapy Approach. In M. Galluccio & F. Aquilar
(Eds.), Psychological and political strategies for peace negotiation: A cognitive
approach. London: Springer.

Leahy, R. L. (2010). Emotional Schemas in Treatment Resistant Anxiety. In

D Sookman & R L Leahy Treatment Resistant Anxiety Disorders: Resolving
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D. Sookman & R. L. Leahy, Treatment Resistant Anxiety Disorders: Resolving
Impasses to Symptom Remission (pp. 135-160). New York: Routledge.

Clark, D. A., Hollifield, M., Leahy, R. L., & Beck, J. S. (2009). Theory of
cognitive therapy. In G. O. Gabbard (Ed.), Textbook of psychotherapeutic
treatments (pp. 165-200). Arlington, VA: American Psychiatric Publishing.

Leahy, R. L. (2009). Resistance: An Emotional Schema Therapy (EST)

Approach. In G. Simos, Cognitive Behaviour Therapy: A Guide for the
Practising Clinician (Vol. 2, pp. 187-204). New York: Routledge.

Leahy, R. L. (2007). Emotional Schemas and Self-Help: Homework

Compliance and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. Cognitive and Behavioral
Practice, 14(3), 297-302.

Leahy, R. L. (2007). Emotional Schemas and Resistance to Change in

Anxiety Disorders. Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, 14, 36-45.

Leahy, R. L. (2007). Schematic Mismatch in the Therapeutic Relationship:

A Social-Cognitive Model. In P. Gilbert & R. L. Leahy, The Therapeutic
Relationship in the Cognitive Behavioral Psychotherapies (pp. 229-254). New
York: Routledge.

Leahy, R. L. (2002). A Model of Emotional Schemas. Cognitive and

Behavioral Practice, 9, 177-190.

Batmaz, S., & Özdel, K. (2015). Psychometric properties of the Turkish

version of the Leahy Emotional Schema Scale-II. Anatolian Journal of
Psychiatry/Anadolu Psikiyatri Dergisi, 16(1), 23-30.

Batmaz, S., Kaymak, S. U., Kocbiyik, S., & Turkcapar, M. H. (2014).

Metacognitions and emotional schemas: a new cognitive perspective for
the distinction between unipolar and bipolar depression. Comprehensive
psychiatry, 55(7), 1546-1555.

Daneshmandi, S., Izadikhah, Z., Kazemi, H., & Mehrabi, H. (2014). The
effectiveness of emotional schema therapy on emotional schemas of
female victims of child abuse and neglect. Journal of Shahid Sadoughi
University of Medical Sciences, 22(5), 1481-1494.

Edwards, E. R., Micek, A., Mottarella, K., & Wupperman, P. Emotion ideology
mediates effects of risk factors on alexithymia development. Journal of
Rational-Emotive & Cognitive-Behavior Therapy (35)3, 1-24.

Naderi, Y., Moradi, A., Hasani, J., & Noohi, S. (2015). Effectiveness of
emotional schema therapy on cognitive emotion regulation strategies of
combat-related post traumatic stress disorder veterans. Iranian Journal of
War and Public Health, 7(3), 147-155.

Rezaee, M., Ghazanfari, F., & Reazee, F. (2016). Effectiveness of emotional

schema therapy on severity of depression and rumination in people with
major depressive disorder. Journal of Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical
Sciences and Health Services, 24(1), 41-54.

Sirota, N., Moskovchenko, D., Yaltonsky, V., Kochetkov, Y., Yaltonskaya, A.

(2013). Psychodiagnostics of emotional schemas: the results of
transcultural adaptation and assessment of psychometric properties of
Russian Version of Leahy Emotional Schema Scale II (LESS II_RUS). VM
Bekhterev review of psychiatry and medical psychology, 77 (1), 66-71.

Khaleghi, M., Leahy, R. L., Akbari, E., Mohammadkhani, S., Hasani, J., &
Tayyebi, A. (2017). Emotional Schema Therapy for Generalized Anxiety
Disorder: A Single-Subject Design. International Journal of Cognitive
Therapy, 10(4), 269-282.

Leahy, R. L. (2012). Leahy Emotional Schema Scale II (LESS II).

Unpublished manuscript, American Institute for Cognitive Therapy.
Leahy, R. L., Tirch, D. D., & Melwani, P. S. (2012). Processes underlying
depression: Risk aversion, emotional schemas, and psychological
flexibility. International Journal of Cognitive Therapy, 5(4), 362-379.

Silberstein, L. R., Tirch, D. D., Leahy, R. L., & McGinn, L. (2012). Mindfulness,
psychological flexibility and emotional schemas. International Journal of
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Cognitive Therapy, 5(4), 406-419.

Tirch, D. D., Leahy, R. L., Silberstein, L. R., & Melwani, P. S. (2012). Emotional
schemas, psychological flexibility, and anxiety: The role of flexible
response patterns to anxious arousal. International Journal of Cognitive
Therapy, 5(4), 380-391.

Westphal, M., Leahy, R. L., Pala, A. N., & Wupperman, P. (2016). Self-
compassion and emotional invalidation mediate the effects of parental
indifference on psychopathology. Psychiatry Research, 242, 186-191.
Moskovchenko et al (2016). Psychodiagnostics of emotional schemas: the
results of transcultural adaptation and assessment of psychometric
properties of Russian Version of LESS II

LESS in Different Languages:

LESS in Chinese

LESS in Arabic (Translated by Osama Aljama)

LESS in Russian

LESS in Espanol

LESS in Urdu

LESS in Turkish

LESS in Romanian

LESS in Macedonian

LESS in Persian

LESS II in Portugese

LESS II in French

Emotional Muster - German

Dimensionen und Items des Emotionale Muster Fragebogen - German

RESS in Persian

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