Schema

Therapy
Federica Chacón Domínguez
Maryam Soltanzadeh
Monica Pinto

It is based on the idea that people have innate emotional needs, called
schemas, that are not met in childhood. These unmet needs lead to
negative coping styles that persist into adulthood.

Developed by Dr. Jeffrey Young

Combines elements of CBT, psychoanalytic therapy, and other approaches
Aims to help individuals identify and change these negative patterns

The five basic emotional Schema Modes

1.needs
Secure attachment, Moment-to-moment emotional
maintaining a safe states and coping responses that
connection we all experience.
2. Autonomy, a sense of one's They are triggered by life
own capabilities, feeling of situations that we are
belonging, and sense of oversensitive to.
identity
3. Freedom to express valid These can be: childlike feelings
needs and emotions and behaviors. dysfunctional
4. Spontaneity and play coping modes, critical or harsh
5. Limits that are consistent with parental voices, or healthy adult
reality and self-control modes to represent the funcional
self.

Domains and Maladaptive 3. Domain III: Impaired Limits:

TheSchemas
Schema Domains define 5 entitlement, insufficient self-
broad categories of emotional control.
needs of a child. When these needs 4. Domain IV: Other-Directedness:
are not met, maladaptive schemas subjugation, self-sacrifice,
develop: approval-seek.
5. Domain V: Overvigilance &
1. Domain I: Disconnection and Inhibition: pessimism, punitiveness,
Rejection: abandonment, emotional inhibition, high
distrust, emotional depravation standards.
shame, and social isolation
2. Domain II: Impaired Autonomy
and Performance:
dependence/independence,
vulnerability to harm, failure,
underveloped self.

Components and Goals Goals:

Identification of schemas and Its primary goal is to treat
coping styles, mode work, dysfunctional behavioral
cognitive restructuring, patterns.
emotional regulation, behavioral Stop using maladaptive
techniques, interpersonal coping styles
techniques, consolidation and Incorporate reasonable limits
re-parenting. Build healthy schemas and
modes

Young, J. E., Klosko, J. S., & Weishaar, M. E. (2003). Schema therapy. New York: Guilford, 254.

Jacob, Gitta A.; Arntz, Arnoud (2013). Schema Therapy for Personality Disorders—A Review. International Journal of
Cognitive Therapy, 6(2), 171–185. doi:10.1521/ijct.2013.6.2.171
https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.1521/ijct.2013.6.2.171

Young, J. E., McGinn, L. K., & Salkovskis, P. M. (1996). Schema-focused therapy. Frontiers of Cognitive Therapy, New York:
Guilford, 182-200.

Arntz, A., & Jacob, G. (2017). Schema therapy in practice: An introductory guide to the schema mode approach. John
Wiley & Sons.