Effectiveness of Schema Therapy on Flow at Work and Personal Flourishing of Psychotherapists in Tehran

The present study aimed to assess the determine effectiveness of schema therapy on flow at work and the personal flourishing of psychotherapists in Tehran. This study was semi-experimental with a pre-test, post-test, and three-month follow-up design and control group. The statistical population included all psychotherapists in Tehran, Iran in 2021-2022. Along this line, 30 psychotherapists who met the inclusion criteria were selected by purposive sampling and randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups. The instruments comprised Young's (2003) schema therapy protocol in 20 60-minute sessions, Bakker and Demorti's (2008) WOLF questionnaire, and Soleimani et al.'s (2015) personal flourishing (FQ) questionnaire. The data were analyzed using repeated measures analysis of variance. The results of repeated measurement variance analysis showed that there is a significant difference between the groups in the post-test and follow-up flow at work and personal flourish (P<0.01). Based on the outcomes, it can be argued that schema therapy is practical for psychotherapists' flow at work and personal flourishing, and the results of the follow-up test indicate the durability of this effect over time.