We can distinguish three main coping style and describe them as a (1) fight, (2) flight or (3) freeze reaction. First style refers to overcompensation, which means actively fighting the schema through acting in an opposite way. Second style focuses on schema avoidance through minimizing frequency of their activation (e.g. avoiding situations in which certain schema is activated). In a third coping style an individual passively and helplessly surrender to a schema.
Although all the ways in which an individual adapts to life's difficulties and disturbances are usually quite effective, adaptive and considered as healthy mechanisms, they persist over time in an unchanged manner and become maladaptive, as they lack flexibility in adaptation to the different situations. These reactions are repeated in a psychologically rigid manner, despite the changing conditions or promising options, and are reinforced in their endurance. “Maladaptive coping styles ultimately keep patients imprisoned in their schemas” (Young, Klosko, Weishaar, pp. 33). …show more content…
Unlike cooing styles which focus only on behavioural response, schema modes contains emotional, cognitive and behavioural component. There are four basic schema modes: (1) innate child modes (vulnerable child and angry/impulsive child), (2) maladaptive coping modes (detached protector, compliant surrender and over-compensator), (3) dysfunctional internalized parent modes (punitive parent and demanding parent), and (4) healthy modes (healthy adult and content child) (Rafaeli, Gernstein, Young, 2011; Farrell, Reiss, Shaw,
Although all the ways in which an individual adapts to life's difficulties and disturbances are usually quite effective, adaptive and considered as healthy mechanisms, they persist over time in an unchanged manner and become maladaptive, as they lack flexibility in adaptation to the different situations. These reactions are repeated in a psychologically rigid manner, despite the changing conditions or promising options, and are reinforced in their endurance. “Maladaptive coping styles ultimately keep patients imprisoned in their schemas” (Young, Klosko, Weishaar, pp. 33). …show more content…
Unlike cooing styles which focus only on behavioural response, schema modes contains emotional, cognitive and behavioural component. There are four basic schema modes: (1) innate child modes (vulnerable child and angry/impulsive child), (2) maladaptive coping modes (detached protector, compliant surrender and over-compensator), (3) dysfunctional internalized parent modes (punitive parent and demanding parent), and (4) healthy modes (healthy adult and content child) (Rafaeli, Gernstein, Young, 2011; Farrell, Reiss, Shaw,