The Effectiveness of Schema Therapy on Reducing Early Maladaptive Schemes and Psychological Symptoms of neuropsychiatry Veterans Wives in Tehran city

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of schema therapy on Reducing Early Maladaptive Schemes and Psychological Symptoms of neuropsychiatry Veterans Wives.

In this study, a single-subject A-B interpersonal design with baseline and intervention with follow-up period was used. The statistical population consisted of all the spouses of veterans of the Martyrs and Martyrs Foundation of Tehran in 1398 who were selected by purposive sampling. After the baseline position, twenty sessions of individual schema therapy were presented to the participants. Visual analysis and percentage of improvement were used for data analysis.

The results showed that the effect of schema therapy on the modification of early maladaptive schemas and the psychological symptoms of the wives of the martyrs and martyrs foundation veterans. In other words, the percentages of remission and effect size related to early maladaptive schema domains and psychological symptoms showed a moderate to a higher than average decrease in participants.

According to the findings of the study, it seems necessary to plan for intervention in cognitive and emotional levels in clinical interventions of spouses and families of veterans with psychiatric disorders and because of the effect of schema therapy on reducing psychological symptoms, Benefit as an effective approach.