Master and fine-tune these 12 key Schema Therapy skills:

1. Understanding and attunement

2. Supporting and strengthening the healthy adult mode

3. Schema education: beginning to understand current problems in schema therapy terms

4. Linking unmet needs, schema, and presenting problem

5. Education about maladaptive schema modes

6. Recognizing the mode shifts of the maladaptive coping modes

7. Identifying the presence of the demanding/ punitive inner critic mode

8. Limited reparenting for the demanding/ punitive inner critic mode

9.  Identifying the presence of the angry and vulnerable child modes

10. Limited reparenting for the angry and vulnerable child modes

11. Limited reparenting for the maladaptive coping modes: empathic confrontation

12. Implementing behavioural pattern breaking through homework assignments