Schema Therapy Cards: help you transform your patients

Schema Therapy can sometimes be complicated with 20 maladaptive schemas, 14 adaptive schemas and 5 core emotional needs. In this video, Jess explains how to use The Psych Collective Schema Cards to conceptualise and enact change when engaging in Schema Therapy.
Helping a patient to understand the relationship between the unmet need resulting in a maladaptive schema that is then corrected by getting the need met to develop the adaptive schema will be more accessible and more tangible with these Schema Cards as you can lay them out and move them around.
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[@jomymatthews]

Good cards and great explanation. But I think the colors are a bit off. I think the greens should be red and the purple/magenta ones should be green. ( Schemas = bad = red. Solution = fix = green ) Just my thoughts. Also would be great if there was a pdf version available for a lower price for print outs.

[@rainerdolker5165]

These cards look pretty practical. How Common are positive Schemas by now?

[@thePSYCHcollective]

I am not aware of many people using them yet, but they make a significant difference in my clinical practice because traditional schema therapy only focuses on the negative whereas adaptive schemas give the person something to work towards.

[@ryarya3291]

these cards are great. Do you plan cards for the different modes? Thx

[@thePSYCHcollective]

I am literally working on them right now

[@ryarya3291]

@@thePSYCHcollective thats great, I just checked shipment fees as I live in France. The fees are more expensive than the cards 😶

[@thePSYCHcollective]

@@ryarya3291 yep. Postage fees suck since Covid. Unfortunately there isn’t anything we can do about it.

[@pinchofsalt1]

What are the 6 needs that schema therapy identify?

[@thePSYCHcollective]

There are 5 core emotional needs.
1. Attachment
2. Autonomy
3. Realistic limits
4. Freedom to express
5. Play and spontaneity

[@CLANK...]

Love it. But, do you think schema therapy could place too much emphasis on social constructivism to explain dysfunction?

[@rafalkozlovski]

The idea of unfulfilled needs in childhood is based on attachment theory, which is well grounded in research. It's true that genetics and personality traits inherited from the parents also play a part. Sometimes, you can't really say to what extent you can attribute given traits to nature vs nurture, but if you assume that it is helpful to increase your agency, you can be right using the schema therapy approach.

[@CLANK...]

@rafalkozlovski yes, you are correct about attachment theory and the ambiguity/subjectivity of nature/nurture. Do you think, however, that the schema literature can emphasise social factors disproportionately and could put more emphasis on temperament/genetics, which, based on the individual, could play a significant role? I suppose it still comes back to unmet needs (irrespective of the client's neediness in certain areas). I do think more emphasis on this in the schema literature could be helpful, though, to avoid unwittingly demonising a relatively stable upbringing with hypersensitive/neurotic/neurodivergent clients.