maryam morvaridi; Rasoul Roshan Chesli; Hojjatollah Farahani; ALI Mashhadi
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There is evidence that emotion plays a role in explaining generalized anxiety disorder, and on the other hand, dysfunctional emotional schemas are different in various psychopathological disorders, but few studies have addressed this issue. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to qualitatively investigate ...
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There is evidence that emotion plays a role in explaining generalized anxiety disorder, and on the other hand, dysfunctional emotional schemas are different in various psychopathological disorders, but few studies have addressed this issue. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to qualitatively investigate emotional schemas in Iranian patients with generalized anxiety disorder. For this purpose, 16 patients with generalized anxiety disorder in Mashhad, Iran were interviewed and their responses were qualitatively clustered to extract their emotional schemas and subthemes related to each emotional schema. A semi-structured interview was conducted to investigate patients' perspectives on emotion and their 14 emotional schemas. Patients' statements were transcribed and analyzed through comparative-inductive thematic analysis and coding. They were then categorized into main themes and subtheme naming was done in consultation with experts. The findings showed that four emotional schemas of validation, duration, uncontrollability, and extreme rationalization are more involved in patients with generalized anxiety disorder and 12 subthemes including mentalized emotional insecurity, desocialization, somatization, significance, uncertainty intolerance, unpredictability threat, extreme emotional perfectionism, continuity of catastrophic thinking, trait anxiety, superiority of others, emotional avoidance, emotional inflexibility, and extreme approval led to the creation and continuation of generalized anxiety disorder symptoms. Therefore, addressing these 4 emotional schemas in patients with generalized anxiety disorder with a greater focus on the validation schema, which is more pervasive, can increase treatment efficacy. In addition, we can focus on them in educational and preventive protocols, not just intervention protocols
Ehsan Matinfar; Imanollah Bigdeli; ALI Mashhadi
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The Symptoms of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) have been considered an index of cognitive control deficiency. The aim of this study was to investigate whether enhancing cognitive control over emotional stimuli can decrease worry intrusions and severity of the GAD symptoms. Based on the results ...
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The Symptoms of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) have been considered an index of cognitive control deficiency. The aim of this study was to investigate whether enhancing cognitive control over emotional stimuli can decrease worry intrusions and severity of the GAD symptoms. Based on the results of the structured clinical interview for the DSM-5 (SCID), 45 students of Ferdowsi University of Mashhad (FUM) who had GAD, were chosen to participate in this study. Then, they were assigned equally and randomly to the three conditions of intervention, control and active control groups. Subsequently, they completed the PSWQ, GAD-7, emotional stroop task, and Go/No Go task as pre-test. The intervention group received 16 sessions of the cognitive-affective control training using the emotional stroop with the trial-based feedback. Also, the active control group received the same amount of the training sessions of the emotional stroop with receiving no feedback, and finally, the control group was on a waiting list. After post-test assessments, the results of ANCOVA showed that the training sessions were effective for the stroop performance, reduction in worry intrusions, and GAD symptoms, while the training on the cognitive inhibition did not transfer to the behavioral inhibition. The findings revealed that not only cognitive control plays a major role in worry and GAD symptoms, but also cognitive control training might be a promising path to decrease the severity of anxiety disorders. Training with emotional stimuli can enhance performance, and using trial-based feedback can pave the way to get better clinical results.
zahra alizadeh birjandi; ali mashhadi; zahra tabibi
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Anxiety disorders are the most popular symptoms among children. It affects cognitive, emotional and social developmental of children. High prevalence and negative outcomes cause to establish effective treatment.This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of Kendal treatment program (COPING CAT Program) ...
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Anxiety disorders are the most popular symptoms among children. It affects cognitive, emotional and social developmental of children. High prevalence and negative outcomes cause to establish effective treatment.This study aimed to evaluate the efficacy of Kendal treatment program (COPING CAT Program) on improvement of cognitive emotion regulation of anxious children.This is a Quasi-Experimental study with pretest-posttest and control group. The control and experimental groups are selected by purposive sampling (N=22, age= 8-13).The evaluation implemented using multidimensional anxiety scale (MASC) , Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), Teacher Report Form (TRF) and Cognitive Emotion Regulation (CERQ-K).The experiment was applied during 16 sessions individually. SPSS-18 software and descriptive statistics and covariate analysis method were used to analyze the data. Covariance analysis revealed that the overall mean non-adaptive cognitive coping strategies scores in the experimental group compared to the control group was significantly lower (p < /em><0.05). The finding showed that the experimental group compared with the control group, the scores of adaptive cognitive coping strategies showed a significant increase (p < /em><0.05). Coping Cat treatment program was effective on improvement of cognitive emotion regulation of anxious children. Findings of this research can be clinical applications to care and treatment of children with anxiety disorders.
Z. Vadadian (M. A); B. A. Ghanbari Hashemabadi; A. Mashhadi
Volume 1, Issue 4 , February 2011, , Pages 18-42
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This research has been conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of group therapy on solving parent-adolescent conflicts and reduction of aggression in young adult children. Research method was chosen to be semi-experimental with pre-test, post-test, witness-group and repeated measurement. Research society ...
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This research has been conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of group therapy on solving parent-adolescent conflicts and reduction of aggression in young adult children. Research method was chosen to be semi-experimental with pre-test, post-test, witness-group and repeated measurement. Research society consisted of 25 young adult girl between 14 and 15 years of age and their parents which were chosen voluntarily among people who came to psychological clinics of regions 4 and 5 of ministry of education in Mashhad. To obtain preliminary data, to measure the severity of conflicts PCRS was utilized and to measure aggressive behavior of children Aggression Questionnaire of Boss and Perry was used. Analysis of variance with repeated measurement and LSD follow up test was used to compare mean values. Results show that the success of group therapy with multiple families involved, in solving conflicts (P < 0.05). Results also indicated that group therapy has meaningfully increased positive feelings and dialogue between adolescents and their parents in comparison with two other control groups. However the hypothesis of reduction of aggression was not supported statistically
