Maladaptive Coping Styles According to Jeffrey Young

  What can be done if a patient suffers from several disorders? What interventions are required for ‘difficult patients’? And what happens if the problem has become chronic? Jeffrey Young, an American psychologist, has spent 20 years developing schema therapy to provide a solution for these problems. In this article, we’re going to focus on a cornerstone of his method: his maladaptive coping styles. Schema therapy is an integrative process. It combines elements from the cognitive-behavioral school, attachment theory, gestalt, constructivist, and psychodynamic models. It’s been mainly employed in treating personality disorders. That said, research is also being developed on…