Early Maladaptive Schemas And Immigration: A Case Study

Abstract

Individuals who born and raise in societies whom experience war and immigration in their lifetime carries the traumatic life events and traces with them throughtout their lives. Individual’s perceptions upon the world and experiences based on their schemes. These schemes formed by the life experiences of the individulas. Schemes starts to develop during the early childhood and adolescent period of life and they continue to develop throughout the life. H. lived two internal displacements during his childhood and adolescent period. The schemes that are developed during his early childhood and adolescent period results with dysfunctional life style during his adulthood life. The schemes that develop under the influence of the case of immigration during his early childhood and adolescent period of his life affects his personal life and his relationships with others

Keywords

• Immigration
• Internal Displacement
• Cyprus
• Schema