Effectiveness of Schema Therapy on Severity of Depression and Suicide Ideation in Patient whit Treatment Resistance Depression

The schema therapy model emphasis’s on early maladaptive schemas in psychological disorder. This study aimed to determine effectiveness of Schema Therapy on severity of depression and Suicide ideation in patient whit treatment resistance depression.
This research was a semi experimental study using pre-test and post-test with control group. among all patients with treatment resistance depression visited in Naft and Sadooghi hospital of Tehran, 30 patients were selected through inclusion-exclusion criteria and availability sampling method then randomly were assigned into two equal experimental (15 persons) and control (15 persons) groups. Experimental group experienced 12 weeks of schema therapy, while control group were just followed. Beck depression inventory (BDI-II) and Beck suicide scale ideation (BSSI) were used in pre-test and post-test as the. Data were analyzed by Mancova via SPSS19 software.
The results of this research showed that the means of depression and suicide ideation in experimental group were reduced significantly in comparison with control group in post-test (P The study findings proposed that schema therapy can be used as an effective intervention in order to reduce of depression and suicide ideation in people with treatment resistance depression. It is recommended that psychologist and psychiatrist across the country use the schema therapy to reduce psychological problems of treatment resistance depression patients.