The Effect of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in Decreasing Cognitve Avoidance
Among Students with Specific Learning Disorder (SLD)

Mirzahosseini, Hassan; Pourabdol, Saeed; Gharamaleki, Nasser Sobhi; Saravani, Shahzad

doi:10.18869/acadpub.ijpcp.22.3.166

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“…As discussed, both treatments can significantly reduce cognitive avoidance. Mirzahosseini, Pourabdol, Sobhi Gharamaleki, & Saravani (2016) showed that since ACT can significantly impact the acceptance of emotions and confrontation with them, this treatment can play an eminent role in decreasing cognitive avoidance in patients (Mirzahosseini, Pourabdol, and Sobhi Gharamaleki, 2016). Other studies also showed that ST reduces cognitive avoidance (Ghadampour, Hosseini Ramaghani, Moradi, Rod, & Ali- Rezaee et al, 2017).…”

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Comparing the Effectiveness of Schema Therapy With Acceptance and Commitment Therapy on Cognitive Avoidance in Patients With Generalized Anxiety Disorder

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2022

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Objective: This study aimed to compare the effectiveness of schema therapy with acceptance and commitment therapy with exposure techniques on cognitive avoidance in female patients with generalized anxiety disorder. Methods: 10 women with generalized anxiety disorder were selected through purposeful sampling with Structured Clinical Interview for DSM Disorders (SCID-5). To determine the absence of Personality disorder Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI-III) (Millon and Groosman, 2005) was used. Schema therapy was conducted for 20 weekly sessions and ACT with exposure techniques for 12 weeks and follow-up 6 weeks. The Cognitive Avoidance Questionnaire (CAQ) (Sexton and Douglas, 2004) was used as pre-test and post-test, and to track the results. Analysis of variance with repeated measures was used to test the research hypotheses. Results: The results showed that schema therapy is more effective than ACT in the subscales of thought suppression (F=12.80, p=0.037) and avoidance of threatening (F=25.61, p=0.015), but they have no significant statistical difference in other subscales and total score. Both treatments significantly reduced the total score of cognitive avoidance, but they did not have a statistically significant difference. Conclusion: It is concluded that Schema therapy and ACT with exposure techniques are effective in reducing the severity of symptoms and improving cognitive avoidance in females with Generalized Anxiety Disorder.

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confidence: 97%