The effectiveness of Schema Therapy on Tendency to Drugs and Regulation Affection in Men Undergoing Methadone Maintenance Treatment

فصلنامه روانشناسی سلامت و رفتار اجتماعی

Article 3, Volume 2, Issue 1 - Serial Number 5, June 2022, Pages 19-34   

Document Type: Original Article

DOI: 10.30495/hpsbjourna.2022.1952119.1066

Authors

Tamara Mirabi¹; Fariba Hassani^{* 2}; Fatemeh golshani³; Farnaz Keshavarzi Arshadi⁴

¹PhD Student, Department of General Psychology, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

²Assistant Professor, Department of General Psychology, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

³Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Central Tehran Branch, Central Tehran Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

⁴Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Psychology, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Introduction: The aim of this study was the effectiveness of schema therapy on tendency to drugs and Regulation Affection in men undergoing methadone maintenance treatment. Method of the study is an semi experimental by pre-test, post-test and follow-up with a control group, among the men undergoing methadone maintenance treatment who referred to the Shahid Mellatdoost service-support complex, a sample included 30 men were selected through judgment sampling and finaly divided to 2 groups by randomization (15 men in each group), In the course of study 5 men were excluded from the study and 4 men fell. Thus, 11 men in the unified transdiagnostic of emotional disorders treatment group, and 10 men in the control group. The experimental group was exposed to the intervention of 17 sessions of schema therapy, while the control group was not exposed to such intervention. Addiction potential and positive and negative scale Was used to collect data. Research data with the help of software "Spss, and were analyzed using descriptive statistics and analysis of variance with repeated measures.

Findings showed that schema therapy was effective in reducing tendency to drugs and regulate affection at the end of treatment and after two months of follow-up. Schema therapy can be used as an effective treatment with methadone therapy to reduce tendency to drugs and regulate affection.

Keywords

RegulationAffection; Methadon MaintenanceTreatmen; Tendency to Drugs; schema therapy

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