How can children’s schemas evolve into adult schemas that are responsible for depression? To answer
this question, we translated Schmidt, Joiner, Young, and Telch’s (1995) Early Maladaptive Schema
Questionnaire into French and adapted it to children. We administered the questionnaire to two groups
of children in years seven to ten (N = 252), one group containing children suffering from depression
and the other containing children with no psychiatric disorders. The results provided insight into the
structure of depression schemas. From a clinical perspective, we stress the possibility of using this
tool to individually or collectively detect «normal» and «abnormal» schemas in children
Early maladaptive schemas among children: a new way to screen for depressed child?