Introduction and Objective: Bipolar disorder is a chronic and progressive mood disorder that leads to severe problems in a person's social and occupational functioning. The purpose of this research was to investigate the effect of the group cognitive behavioral therapy on the cognitive emotion regulation and the quality of life of women with bipolar I.
Research Methodology: The research design was semi-experimental with pre-test and post-test with experimental and unmathched control groups. The statistical population of the present study included all female suffering from bipolar I disorder. Using the purposeful sampling method, there were 30 people in two experimental groups (15 people) and control (15 people) were completely randomly replaced. Subjects completed cognitive emotion regulation Garnefsky (2006) and WHO quality of life questionnaire (1989). The experimental group received 8 sessions cognitive behavioral therapy group. Both groups completed the questionnaires in two stages before and after the intervention. Unitivariate Analysis of Covariance was used to analyze the data.
Findings: The findings indicated that group cognitive-behavioral therapy had a significant effect on the Improving adaptive and reducing maladaptive strategies of cognitive emotion regulation (p<0.01), also, it had a significant effect on quality of life of the people with bipolar disorder type 1 (p<0.05).
Conclusion: The result of this study showed that cognitive behavioral therapy group training is effective in terms of cognitive regulation of emotions and quality of life of people with bipolar disorder type 1 and this treatment method can be used to improve emotional regulation and increase the quality of life of bipolar patients.