Comparing the Effectiveness of the New Developed Treatment Contrast Avoidance and Emotion-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on the Severity of Symptoms of Generalized Anxiety Disorder

The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of the New Developed Contrast Avoidance and Emotion-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy on the Severity of Symptoms Generalized Anxiety Disorder. The present study was quasi-experimental with pre-test, post-test design with control group. The statistical population included all women with generalized anxiety disorder in the city of Khorramabad, of whom 45 were selected as available. They were randomly assigned to two experimental groups and a control group. the New Developed treatment Contrast Avoidance and Emotion-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy were held separately In 12 sessions 90-minute and no training was applied to the control group. The instrument of this study was a Generalized Anxiety Disorder scale in which pre-test and post-test participants answered questions A multivariate analysis of covariance was used to analyze the data. The findings showed that the developmental treatment contrast avoidance and Emotion-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy improves the symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder (p <0.01). And the recovery rate is higher than the subjects of the control group (p <0.01). But the two experimental groups did not differ significantly (P <0.05). the New Developed treatment contrast avoidance and Emotion-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy improves the symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder and Developmental therapy focuses on the physiological and emotional experience of the client so that the client can experience the emotional contrast, which may be one of the underlying causes of generalized anxiety disorder. The effectiveness of this treatment may also be effective in mental disorders that have an emotional underpinning.