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Harbour Health Psychology & Clinical Services - Shellharbour Village

Understanding maladaptive Schemas

Understanding your maladaptive schemas can be a helpful step in improving your life, and changing the unworkable patterns that exist. Detailed here is a deep dive in to each individual schema, and the ways it impacts out behaviours, and some simple challenges to start improving our healthy adult connection to the schema. 

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Emotional Deprivation

Defectiveness -
shame

Abandonment- instability

Mistrust/ 
abuse

Social Isolation - Alienation

Dependence - incompetence

Enmeshment - underdeveloped self

Failure
 

Entitlement - Grandiosity

Insufficient self control - discipline

Subjugation
 

Self-sacrifice
 

Approval Seeking
 

Negativity - Pessimism

Emotional Inhibition - constriction

Unrelenting standards

Punitiveness
 

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Harbour Health Psychology & Clinical Services is here to help you in your mental health needs today. Make contact and we can start to organise the next steps in supporting your psychological wellbeing.

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