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Studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of emotion-focused group therapy (EFGT) on psychopathology in vulnerable groups. However, it remains unclear whether this intervention is effective for self-harming students. The present study aimed to investigate the effect of EFGT on emotional dysregulation, impulsivity, and tendency to risky behaviors in self-harming female students.

This quasi-experimental study utilized a pre-test, post-test, and follow-up design with a control group. The statistical population comprised all female secondary school students in Bukan city during the academic year 2023. A sample of 45 students was selected based on inclusion and exclusion criteria and randomly assigned to experimental, placebo, and control groups (15 students each). Participants completed the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale, Barratt Impulsiveness Scale, Self-Harm Inventory, and Iranian Adolescents Risk-taking Scalebefore and after the group therapy and in the follow-up phase. The emotion-focused treatment protocol developed by Watson and Greenberg (2006) was administered over 8 sessions lasting 90 minutes each, conducted over a period of 2 months for the experimental group. Data were analyzed by mixed ANOVA using SPSS-25 software.

The findings indicated that EFGT significantly reduced emotional dysregulation, impulsivity, tendency to risky behaviors, and self-harm tendencies in the experimental group compared to the placebo and control groups (p<0.01). These effects were sustained during the follow-up phase (p<0.01).

The results of the present study provided appropriate experimental support for the effect of EFGT in reducing emotional dysregulation, impulsivity, tendency to risky behaviors and self-harm tendencies in at-risk students. Therefore, clinical experts and psychotherapists can use this intervention to effectively treat emotional dysregulation, risky behaviors and self-harm tendencies in students.

Obsessive-compulsive disorder(OCD) imposes significant costs on the family and community. The present study aimed to compare the effectiveness of metacognitive therapy and emotion-focused therapy in improving the symptoms of OCD in people with this syndrome.

This study utilized a semi-experimental design with pre-and post-tests and a two-month follow-up period. Health centers, psychiatrists, and social media pages provided referrals and information on the sampling method. The participants were evaluated using the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-5 (SCID-5), Yale-Brown, and a psychiatrist or clinical psychologist's diagnosis. The participants were evaluated using the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-5(SCID-5), Yale-Brown, and a psychiatrist or clinical psychologist's diagnosis. They were randomly assigned to groups. The treatment protocol was implemented in both groups. Each group began with 16 individuals. To diagnose OCD, we used the Yale-Brown(Y-BOCS). Statistical analysis was performed using the Mixed variance analysis in SPSS.

the mean difference between the emotion-focused therapy group and the control group(-6. 206) was greater than the mean difference between the metacognitive therapy group and the control group(-4. 992). In other words, there was a significant difference between the effectiveness of the two treatments in improving the symptoms of the people with OCD syndrome.

Despite the effectiveness of both treatments in improving OCD symptoms, The mean difference between the two treatments and the control group demonstrated that emotion-focused therapy is more effective than metacognitive therapy at reducing the OCD syndrome.

The aim of the current study was to investigate the effectiveness of Emotion Focused Therapy on Alexithymia and Internalized Self-Criticism in Neurotic Perfectionist girls.

Methods and Materials: 

The statistical population consisted of all Neurotic Perfectionist girls in Ahvaz. The research sample consisted of 5 girls that were selected according to the results of the neurotic perfectionism questionnaires (NPQ), using purposeful sampling method. In this research, a single-case experimental design, type of concurrent multiple baseline designs was used. Instruments were Toronto ʼs Alexithymia Scale (1994), Thompson and Zuroff ʼs The Levels of Self-Criticism Scale (LSCS) (2004). The data was collected in three phases of baseline, during intervention, and three month follow-up.

The findings indicate that the subjects in the treatment phase experienced improvement in Alexithymia (10.58) and Internalized Self-Criticism (21.32), and in the follow-up in regards to Alexithymia (19.41) and Internalized Self-Criticism (51.76). The change index was indicative of meaningful changes (z=1.96 α=0.05).

Therefore, the research findings illustrated that Emotion Focused Therapy reduces Alexithymia and Internalized Self-Criticism in Neurotic Perfectionist girls.

Anxiety disorders are among the most common mental disorders in both primary care and clinical medicine. The existence of psychological distress in many people with social anxiety disorder has been confirmed. Symptoms of psychological distress include decreased concentration, restlessness, impaired intelligence, sleep disorders, isolation and loneliness, lethargy and weakness. Evidence has shown that people with social anxiety disorder have higher levels of mental disorders, such as depression, stress, and anxiety, than others. In addition, psychological distress is a strong predictor, stimulus, and motivator for exacerbating social anxiety disorder. Social anxiety disorder is one of the most common psychological disorders and the third most common mental disorder among the general population. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of emotion–focused therapy in reducing the fear of negative evaluation and psychological distress in people with social anxiety disorder.

The study method was quasi–experimental, using a pretest–posttest design with a control group. The statistical population comprised all female clients with social anxiety disorder referring to private counseling centers and university counseling centers in Tehran City, Iran, in 2018. The samples were selected using convenience sampling. To conduct the research a call was made to conduct research in private and public counseling centers. Then, the Social Phobia Inventory (Connor et al., 2000) was completed by the clients of counseling centers in Tehran. Among the respondents, 16 volunteered women with a higher score than the cut–off point of this questionnaire were included in the study. In addition, the Structural Clinical Interview for Axis I Disorders (SCID–I) (First et al., 1997) was performed on all individuals. Finally, based on the questionnaire and interview results, 16 women entered the intervention process after fulfilling the research conditions and meeting inclusion and exclusion criteria. They were randomly assigned into the experimental and control groups (emotion–focused therapy) and control group. The inclusion criteria were a score of 19 or higher on the Social Phobia Inventory, a diagnosis of social anxiety based on Structural Clinical Interview for Axis I Disorders (SCID–I), an age range of 18–40 years, and not using any psychiatric medication. The experimental group participated in ten 90–minute sessions (one session per week) in emotion–focused therapy training sessions. During this, the control group did not receive any intervention and resumed their regular daily routine. The research instruments included the Negative Evaluation Fear Scale (Watson & Friend, 1969) and the Depression Anxiety and Stress Scale (Lovibond & Lovibond, 1995). Data analysis was done using descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (univariate covariance analysis) in SPSS version 22. The significance level of the tests was set at 0.05.

The findings showed that emotion–focused therapy was effective in reducing negative evaluation (p<0.001) and psychological distress (p<0.001) and its components: depression (p<0.001), stress (p<0.001), and anxiety (p<0.001).

Based on these results, emotion–focused therapy training in people with social anxiety disorder reduces fear of negative evaluation and psychological distress and provides a basis for improving the symptoms of social anxiety disorder.

The formulation of emotion-focused and compassion-focused behavioral intervention therapy can explain the relationship between the dimensions of problems and the health promotion of patients with headache symptoms and present the first combined treatment for emotional problems and the sedation of the nervous system to investigate and comprehensively prevent the symptoms of primary headaches.

This was a quasi-experimental study with a pretest, posttest, and follow-up with a control group. The sample consisted of 45 patients with primary headache symptoms who were referred to the neurology clinic of Khatam Al-Anbia Hospital in Tehran City, Iran. They were selected by the purposive sampling method and randomly divided into two experimental groups and a control group (15 people in each group). The experimental groups underwent a combination of compassion-based emotion therapy (ten 60-min sessions) and compassion-focused treatment (eight 60-min sessions). The control group received no intervention. After collecting the data, they were entered into the SPSS software, version 24. Descriptive statistical indices (mean and standard deviation) and statistical inference (repeated measures analysis of variance and the Bonferroni post hoc test) were used to analyze the data.

The findings showed that the quality of life variable is not significant because of the non-compliance with the spheric default in the intragroup effect and time factor (F = 3.47, df = 1.15, and P < 0.05); however, the interaction of the factor of time and group (F = 8.25, df = 2.31, and P < 0.01) shows a significant difference (P < 0.01) in the quality of life variable between pretest, posttest, and follow-up and time interaction with the group (between the three groups).

Compassion-based emotion-based combination therapy packages can help control the current situation and subsequent decisions of patients in the face of the signs and symptoms of early headaches by creating a calm mental environment and relieving any pressure or stress. Therefore, compassion-based emotion-based combination therapy is a treatment option that can be used to increase the quality of life of people with primary headaches.

Improving emotion regulation can be helpful in coping with Covid-19 grief disorder. The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of emotion-focused therapy and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy of emotion regulation in women with Covid-19 grief disorder.

The method of the present study was quasi-experimental with pre-test, post-test and two-month follow-up. From 25 to 45 years old women with grief disorder (caused by Covid-19) in Tehran in 2020-2021, 45 people were selected by voluntary sampling and randomly assigned to three groups (15 people in each group). The research tool included a scale of difficulty in emotion regulation (Gertz and Roemer, 2004). One group received emotion-based therapy (10 sessions of one and a half hours) and one group received mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (9 sessions of one and a half hours). The control group was placed on a waiting list and did not receive any intervention during the study.

The results showed that both interventions had a significant effect on emotion regulation components compared to the control group (P<0.01). The results also showed that emotion-focused therapy significantly reduced the mean components of emotion rejection, difficulty in impulse control, lack of emotional awareness and limited access to emotion regulation strategies compared to mindfulness-based cognitive therapy.

The results indicate the competitive effectiveness of emotion-focused therapy compared to mindfulness-based cognitive therapy on emotion regulation.

Emotion-focused therapy (EFT) is designed to help patients identify and process their emotions. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of emotion-focused therapy on improving depression and self-compassion in women with breast cancer.

This was a quasi-experimental study with a pretest-posttest design with a control group and a 3-month follow-up. The sample consisted of 30 women with breast cancer in Tehran who had a depression score of >17 at screening and were selected via purposive sampling and randomly placed in experimental and control groups of 15. The experimental group underwent EFTover twelve 50-minute individual sessions according to the Greenberg emotion-focused therapy protocol. Research data were collected using the Beck Depression Inventory and the Self-compassion Scale before, after, and 3 months after the end of treatment. Data analysis was performed using repeated-measures two-way ANOVA.

The experimental group scored significantly higher in self-compassion and lower in depression in the posttest compared with the pretest. In the follow-up assessment, depression scores were as low as the posttest levels, but self-compassion scores decreased relative to the posttest; however, they remained significantly above the pre-test levels. In the control group, both depression and self-compassion scores were stable over time.

EFT can be used as an appropriate intervention to reduce depression and increase self-compassion significantly and enduringly in women with breast cancer.

The aim of this study was to develop an educational package based on compassion-focused therapy, emotion-focused therapy and acceptance-commitment therapy and to determine its effectiveness on the tolerance of anxiety and impulsivity of adolescents with aggressive behaviors.

The research method was quasi-experimental with pre-test-post-test and follow-up with the control group. Then the content validity ratio and its content indicators were determined by experts. The statistical population was female high school students in Ramsar city, of which 30 people using purposive sampling method (15 people as experimental group and 15 people as the control group was selected as the sample size. Data collection tools included Simmons and Gahr (2005) Distress Tolerance Scale, Bart (impulsivity) (2004), Bass and Perry Aggression Questionnaire (1992) and training package therapy protocol based on centralized treatment methods. On compassion, emotion-focused therapy and therapy based on acceptance and commitment and its effectiveness on enduring the anxiety and impulsivity of adolescents had aggressive behaviors. The experimental group received a training package in 12 sessions of 120 minutes and the control group did not receive any training. Findings were analyzed using analysis of covariance and analysis of variance by SPSS statistical software

The content validity index for all objectives in the training package was between 0.9 to 1 and the content validity ratio for all objectives in the training protocol was between 0.8 to 1. The results showed that the educational package based on compassion-focused treatment methods, emotion-focused treatment and acceptance-based therapy had a significant effect on adolescents' tolerance of anxiety and impulsivity.

Based on the research findings, no significant difference was observed between post-test and follow-up. As a result, the educational package has the ability to control the tolerance of anxiety and impulsivity of adolescents.

Primary headache, as one of the most pervasive pain disorders, has drawn attention to the welfare problems of patients with primary headache symptoms, especially regarding sleep quality and irrational beliefs. This study was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of emotion-focused therapy and compassion-focused therapies on sleep quality and irrational beliefs in patients with primary headache symptoms.

This quasi-experimental study was conducted with a pretest-posttest control group design. The sample consisted of 45 patients with primary headache symptoms referring to the neurology clinic of Khatam Al-Anbia Hospital in Tehran, Iran. The samples were selected using the purposive sampling method and randomly divided into two experimental groups and one control group (n=15 each). The experimental groups underwent emotion-focused and compassion-focused therapies.

The results showed that there was a significant difference between research groups in the post-test stage regarding sleep quality (F=17.04, df=2, and P<0.01) and irrational beliefs (F=77.27, df=2, and P<0.01). The results of the Bonferroni post hoc test showed that emotion-focused and compassion-focused therapies had a significant effect on sleep quality (P<0.01) and irrational beliefs (P<0.01).

Based on the results, emotion-focused and compassion-focused therapies were two appropriate treatments to increase sleep quality and reduce irrational beliefs among patients with primary headache symptoms. Patients, by participating in group sessions of these two therapies, developed adaptive and positive coping strategies to control attacks and improve headache symptoms as much as possible.

Psychosocial, cognitive, and biological changes during adolescence provide numerous opportunities for adolescents to engage in behaviors that are implicitly important in adopting or endangering a healthy lifestyle. The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the educational package based on three methods of treatment focused on compassion, emotion and acceptance, and commitment to distress tolerance in adolescents with aggressive behaviors.

The present study was quasi-experimental with pre-test-post-test design, quarterly follow-up, and a control group. Participants included 30 female high school students in Ramsar city in 2019-2020, who were selected via purposful sampling method and then randomly divided into experimental and control groups. Data were obtained using Aggression Questionnaire and Distress Tolerance Questionnaire. The experimental group was trained for twelve sessions, but the control group did not receive any training. Data were analyzed using univariate analysis of covariance via SPSS software version 22.

In the experimental group, the mean (SD) score of anxiety tolerance increased from 45.5 (1.3) in the pre-test to 48.8 (1.5) in the post-test (P<0.001) and 49.1 (1.7) in the follow-up, which indicates that the effect of the intervention was stable (P<0.001). In the control group, the mean (SD) score of anxiety tolerance increased from 44.2 (1.7) in the pre-test to 45.2 (1.1) in the post-test and 45.1 (0.1) in the follow-up, which was not statistically significant.

The training package based on compassion-focused therapy (CFT), emotion-focused therapy (EFT), and acceptance and commitment-based therapy (ACT) was effective in increasing the anxiety tolerance among adolescents with aggressive behaviors.

 This study aims to investigate the effect of Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) on depression, anxiety, and Difficulty in Emotion Regulation (DER) in women with Binge Eating Disorder (BED).

This is a quasi-experimental study with pre-test/post-test/follow-up design using a control group. Study population consists of all women referred to the obesity clinics in Tehran in 2019. Of these, 40 were selected using a purposive sampling method and were randomly divided into two groups of intervention (n=20) and control (n=20). The intervention group received 10 sessions of EFT, each session for 90 minutes. Data collection tools were the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), the Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II), Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS), and Binge Eating Scale (BES), which were completed before and after the intervention. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and repeated measure ANIVA in SPSS v. 21 software.

 Group EFT significantly reduced the mean anxiety, depression, DER and severity of binge eating after intervention and over the 2-month follow-up period in BED women (P<0.05).

 The EFT can reduce anxiety, depression, DER and binge eating severity in BED women, and its effect remains constant after two months. It can be useful in the treatment of BED.