sunrise, it's a specialized type of therapy which developed from CBT, sometimes also called CBT-S. It was originally developed for treatment of personality disorders but is now used to treat other issues. It involves more detailed early history and spends more time looking at childhood and early adult trauma than traditional CBT. It uses "limited reparenting"... that part seems to be controversial for some reason. It deals with the core beliefs and schemas or conceptualizations of how the world is that we all develop. For patients experiencing life issues which are pattern based work well with schema. It very much involves digging in and finding out what the core beliefs are which continue to keep the person trapped within their pattern.

Make sense?