1. Create a 'holding environment' that is safe for the patients to reveal their vulnerable self (i.e., abandoned/abused child mode).
2. Encourage the patients to articulate their chronically ignored emotions and unfulfilled needs and desires, commonly repressed by their punitive parents/punitive schema mode.
3. Through partial fulfillment of patients' needs and active listening, the objective is to keep patients in the abandoned/abused child mode, thereby facilitating the development of a stable and strong bond between therapists and patients and allowing therapists to engage in limited parenting to regulate patients' emotions. 

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1. Therapist-patient bonding and emotion regulation
2. Change maladaptive schema modes 
3. Reclaim autonomy

Stages of Schema-focused Treatment

Young, J. E., Klosko, J. S., & Weishaar, M. E. (2006). Schema therapy: A practitioner's guide. Guilford Press.

Schema-focused Therapy

1. Enable BPD patients to develop balanced, equal, mutually reciprocated, and healthy intimate relationships outside counseling.
2. Assist BPD patients in exploring and recognizing their fundamental preferences, emotions, and beliefs to thoroughly understand their core sense of self, thereby empowering them to make more independent life decisions.

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