zahra alizadeh birjandi; ali mashhadi; zahra tabibi
Abstract
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.
Leila Heidarinasab; Mehdi Khorianian; Zahra Tayyebi
Volume 4, Issue 14 , January 2014, , Pages 143-168
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The present study aimed to examine effectiveness of intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP) in reducing symptoms and changing defensive styles in patients with depression. The study employed an applied quasi-experimental design and used a pretest and posttest and a control group. The statistical ...
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The present study aimed to examine effectiveness of intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP) in reducing symptoms and changing defensive styles in patients with depression. The study employed an applied quasi-experimental design and used a pretest and posttest and a control group. The statistical population included all University of Mashhad students with depression who referred to the clinic of Faculty of Education and Psychology during 2001–2002 school year. The sample consisted of 16 students who were selected using purposive voluntary sampling, and were randomly assigned to either the experimental or the control group. The data was collected using a demographic questionnaire, Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and Defensive Style Questionnaire (DSQ) in both groups. The experimental group received a 20-session ISTDP while the control group received no intervention. BDI and DSQ were administered in both groups in the pretest phase. The data were analyzed using ANCOVA in SPSS software. The results showed that ISTDP was effective in reducing symptoms of depression (p<0.001) and immature (p<0.17) and neurotic defensive styles (p<0.001), and in increasing use of mature defensive styles (p<0/001) in the experimental group. In other words, ISTDP increased patients’ moods and their use of mature defense style and it decreased use of immature and neurotic defense styles
