Schema therapy ideas — plain language
These pages explain how emotional patterns often work, so you can use the Toxic Partner tools with more context. They are psychoeducation, not therapy, diagnosis, or treatment.
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- Why you react the way you doAttachment, assertiveness, schemas, and three common coping patterns — in everyday language.
- What mode am I in?Quick recognition guide: triggers, signals, feelings underneath, and the need each mode points to.
- Two-leg model & mode mapRoediger-style map for diagrams and product work: MWe, blue/red legs, critics, coping styles.
- Understanding your patternsShort orientation before viewing questionnaire results — what a schema is, why it sticks, what the app helps with.
Official YSQ-3 long/short forms and other schema inventories are copyrighted by the Schema Therapy Institute and sold through their order center. Theory and inventory overview: Schema Therapy Institute. This portal uses a Rasch YSQ-R style implementation for self-reflection—not those licensed forms.