The patients in these studies attributed a great deal of the effectiveness of the treatment and the low dropout rate to limited reparenting.

The process of limited reparenting is the heart of treatment in Schema Therapy.

The focus of limited reparenting spans a broad range of needs including early connection, joy, adequate limits, and autonomy.

One of the most central techniques in Schema Therapy is the use of the therapeutic relationship, specifically through a process called limited reparenting.

In this way limited reparenting is based upon trust of the patient's dependency needs and a belief that is more effective to meet them than fight them.

Limited reparenting flows directly from Schema Therapy's assumption that early maladaptive schemas and modes arise when core needs are not met.

Limited reparenting involves reaching the Vulnerable Child mode and reassuring, being firm with or setting limits on the avoidant and compensatory coping styles.

The process of limited reparenting involves welcoming and encouraging the patient's dependency on the therapist (the minimal amount of dependency necessary to keep the patient in therapy).

The difference between cognitive-behavioral therapy and schema therapy is that it "emphasizes lifelong patterns, affective change techniques, and the therapeutic relationship, with special emphasis on limited reparenting."

Just as the process of parenting takes widely different forms, limited reparenting may involve warmth and nurturance, firmness, self-disclosure, confrontation, playfulness, and setting limits amongst other things.

Limited reparenting, paralleling healthy parenting, involves the establishment of a secure attachment with the therapist, within the bounds of a professional relationship, doing what he/she can to meet these needs.

Techniques used in Schema Therapy including limited reparenting and Gestalt therapy psychodrama techniques such as imagery re-scripting and empty chair dialogues.

From an integrative psychotherapy perspective, limited reparenting and the experiential techniques, particularly around changing modes, could be seen as actively changing what psychoanalysis has described as object relations, or what psychoanalyst Thomas Ogden called internal object relations.