Abstract:
Objective: An important concept for understanding emotional disorders is emotion regulation. The present study focuses on Effectiveness of Transdiagnostic Therapy on emotion regulation strategies of patients with emotional disorders in comparison with cognitive-behavior therapy.Method: This study was a pretest/post test randomized control trial. A diagnostically heterogeneous clinical sample of 23 patients with a principal depression and anxiety disorders that randomly assigned in two groups (Transdiagnostic and CBT), and participated in eight sessions. Participants were recruited from clinical psychology and psychiatry clinics of Taleghani Hospital, Tehran, Iran. Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ) and Positive and Negative Affect Scale (PANAS) were completed pre and post intervention by participants. The results were analyzed by dependent sample t test and analyses of covariance (ANCOVA).Results: Transdiagnostic therapy resulted in significant improvement of the effectiveness and cognitive emotion regulation strategies. In addition, it is more effective for anxiety disorders in comparison to cognitive-behavior therapy. Conclusions: Transdiagnostic treatment was confirmed in decreasing negative affects and negative cognitive emotion regulation strategies and improving positive affect and positive cognitive emotion regulation strategies in patientswith depression and anxiety disorders, and was more effective than cognitive-behavior therapy for increased positive effects.
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<H1>The Effectiveness of Transdiagnostic Therapy on Emotion Regulation Strategies of Patients with Emotional Disorders: A Randomized Clinical Trial</H1> Mozhgan Lotfi1 (PhD), Maryam Bakhtiyari 2* (PhD), Ali Asghar Asgharnezhad Farid 3 (PhD), Mahdi Amini4 (PhD) 1.
The present study focuses on Effectiveness of Transdiagnostic Therapy on emotion regulation strategies of patients with emotional disorders in comparison with cognitive-behavior therapy.
Unified protocol of Transdiagnostic treatment consists of five treatment modules that target regulating of emotional experience: (1) present-focused emotion awareness (2) cognitive flexibility (3) emotion avoidance and emotion-driven behaviors (4) awareness and tolerance of physical sensations and 5) interceptive and situation-based emotion exposures (Barlow et al.
Emotion regulation is an important factor to vulnerability to anxiety and mood disorders (Campbell-Sills &amp; Barlow, 2007).
The purpose of the present study is to investigate the effectiveness of Transdiagnostic therapy in regulating emotions on patients with depression and anxiety disorders, and compare the Transdiagnostic treatment to improve the levels of affectivity and cognitive emotion regulation strategies.
The unified protocol consists of five core treatment modules: (a) increasing present-focused emotion awareness (b) increasing cognitive flexibility (c) identifying and preventing emotion sensations and (e) emotion- focused exposure (Allen, McHugh, &amp; Barlow, 2008; Barlow, Ellard, et al.
Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire(CERQ): The CERQ (Nadia Garnefski, Kraaij, &amp; Spinhoven, 2002) is a multidimensional questionnaire constructed in order to identify the cognitive coping strategies someone uses after having experienced negative events or situations.
Although the effect size for positive affect was also large and treatment effects at 6-month follow up was permanent (Ellard, Fairholme, Boisseau, Farchione, &amp; Barlow, 2010).