The effectiveness of schema therapy on psychological well-being of individual with emotional breakdown

Document Type : 78

Authors

• Razieh Mouchan ¹
• Shirin Farazmand ²
• Bahman Bahmani ³
• Amir Askari ⁴
• esmaeil mousavi asl ⁵

¹ , Department of Counseling, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran

² University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

³ Department of Counseling, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

⁴ Board Member of Iranian Clinical Psychology Association, Tehran, Iran

⁵ epartment of clinical psychology,school of behavioral sciences and mental health(tehran institue of psychiatry ),iran university of medical sciences,tehran,iran.

Abstract

Abstrac:
The effectiveness of schema therapy on psychological well-being of individual with emotional breakdown
Background and Objective:
Breakdown in emotional relationships increased the possibility of mental health and problems in interpersonal relationships. Love Trauma Syndrome is a severe signs and symptoms that occur after the collapse of a romantic relationship and disturbed individual’s performance in multiple areas. Schema Therapy is an integrated approach that can help psychological well-being of individual with emotional breakdown.
Methods:
This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of schema therapy on psychological well-being of individual with emotional breakdown.This was a Single-case experiment study. The study population were all students in universities of Tehran, three female with emotional breakdown symptoms were selected by Purposeful sampling method to take part in16 sessions individual counseling process. Variables measured at 3 baseline in the intervention in fourth, eighth, twelfth and sixteenth sessions and 3 follow-up, also, in pretreatment stage the participants were completed love trauma Ross questionnaire (1999) and million -3 questionnaire to identify personality clinical patterns
Results:
The data were analyzed by the graph changes, clinical significance, and the index of improvement percentage. The findings at follow up to the baseline intervention showed that schema therapy have been effective in psychological well-being of individual with emotional breakdown And clients achieved 69.33% improvement in psychological well-being
Conclusion:
As a result, this intervention can be effective in increased psychological well-being of individual with emotional breakdown.

Keywords

• Schema therapy
• emotional breakdown
• psychological well-being

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