This study is within the field of educational psychology, from a cognitive approach, it is aimed to describe the early maladaptive schemes (EMS) being present in tenth and eleven grade students, who once had been under the disciplinary pedagogical contract at the educational institute José María Bernal (JOMABER) of Caldas, Antioquia-Colombia. This research is quantitative-type, with a descriptive method, and pretends to understand, describe, and evaluate the EMTs occurring in this students. This sample is composed by 52 students currently in tenth and eleventh grade, who are registered in pedagogical processes or disciplinary contracts, and whose ages range from 15 to 18. The questionnaire of Young Schemas, YSQ - L2, authorized by the University of San Buenaventura of Medellin (Colombia), was applied on these students. The results show that it is probable that the behaviors and problems of these teenagers may be related to early maladaptive schemes, such as vulnerability to harm and sickness, and rights/grandiosity, whose origin associates with the bringing-up styles being overprotective or permissive and indulgent. This results show failure in the management of authority, and in the establishment of well-defined standards and limits.
