Schema therapy worksheets and resources
schema therapy
Schema therapy explores long-standing patterns linked to unmet emotional needs. Schemas describe broad patterns of meaning; modes describe emotional states and coping responses that become active in particular situations. Coping styles include surrendering to a pattern, avoiding it or trying to counter it. The therapist and client can explore these responses alongside the needs they may reflect.
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Personality & Schema Work
Schema formulation
Map how early experiences, schemas about yourself, others and the world, ways of coping and patterns in life now fit together, drawing on Beck's cognitive model and Young's schema therapy.
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Schema diary
Record when an old pattern is set off: what happened, what you felt and thought, how you coped, and what a kind, wise part of you would say. Based on Young, Klosko and Weishaar (2003): their schema diary in our own words, with a feeling rating and an unmet-need prompt added.
Personality & Schema Work
Understanding schema therapy: needs, patterns and modes
Learn how emotional needs, lasting patterns and changing states fit together, and how therapy can support more choice in your responses.
Personality & Schema Work
Recognising emotional needs and ways to meet them
Explore a need in your life now, the support already available and one realistic way to care for that need.
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Eighteen schema patterns: a guide to the concepts
Read plain explanations and fictional illustrations of eighteen patterns, with room to question their meaning and relevance without rating yourself.
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Noticing modes, needs and shifts in the moment
Keep a brief note of a changing state, what it may be protecting and how a response affected you.
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Trying a different response to an old pattern
Plan and rehearse one manageable change to a familiar response, then review what happened and adjust the next attempt.
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Practising a healthy adult response
Choose a caring and realistic response to a difficult state, combining protection, limits, practical support and space for connection or enjoyment.
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