Early Maladaptive Schema
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GUIDED BY THE THEORY that emotional difficulties have their origin in childhood and adolescents, Schema Therapy (Jeffrey Young) proposes that the origin of the emotional difficulty being experienced by an individual, lies within unmet core emotional needs.
Core Emotional Needs: Safety &predictability; warmth & affection; playfulness & spontaneity; understanding, protection & guidance; acceptance & praise; sense of belonging & social connection; autonomy; healthy limits; reasonable expectations. The goal of Schema Therapy is to help the individual to get their needs met, which works to alleviate the emotional difficulty (i.e., depression; emptiness; feelings of failure etc.) from which individual is suffering. |
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Early Maladaptive Schemas (EMS) form as a result of core unmet needs. They are automatic and habitual longstanding patterns of psychological responses that govern how we perceive the world, how we understand what is happening to us, what we feel and how we behave. Jeffrey Young identified 18 types of Early Maladaptive Schemas that sit under 5 general domains (click the buttons below for more information).
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