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.

Objectives in Schema-focused Treatment's Third Stage

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. 

Objectives in Schema-focused Therapy's First Stage

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

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Schema-focused therapy identifies five major modes BPD patients frequently exhibit when reacting to the external world; this therapy aims to foster the growth and strength of one mode named 'healthy adult' to exert over the rest of the four less constructive modes. 

Schema-focused Therapy for BPD

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

Schema-focused Therapy

1. Abandoned Child
2. Angry and Impulsive Child
3. Punitive Parent
4. Detached Protector 
5. Healthy Adult


5 Major Schema Modes in BPD Patients

1. Experiential imagery 
2. Gestalt "two-chair" method
3. Limited reparenting
4. Cognitive restructuring
5. Behavioral pattern-breaking
6. Assertiveness training
7. Self-nurturing pleasurable activities
8. Cognitive coping techniques (e.g., flash cards, the schema diary)
9. Self-soothing skills (e.g., mindfulness meditation, progressive muscle relaxation, safe-place imagery, positive suggestions)
10. Role-plays

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