Comparison of the Effectiveness of Psychodrama and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy in Emotion Regulation and Distress Tolerance among the Women under Abstinence

This study aimed at comparing the effectiveness of dialectical behavioral therapy and psychodrama in distress tolerance and emotion regulation among people with a history of addiction.
A quasi-experimental research design along with pretest/posttest and control group was used for the conduct of this research. This research was carried out on 90 women over the age of 20 years who were in the abstinence period in Isfahan in 2016. The statistical population of this research consisted of all women with a history of addiction in the prison of Isfahan in 2016. A purposive sampling was conducted among the women with a history of addiction through recall and in a voluntary fashion. The participants were randomly divided into 3 groups (two experimental groups and one control group). The experimental groups were trained through psychodrama and dialectic therapy, whereas the control group received no training. Distress Tolerance Questionnaire and a researcher-constructed Problematic Behavioral Emotional States Questionnaire constituted the data collection tools in this study. Finally, the data were analyzed through covariance analysis with the observance of the required assumptions.
The results showed that the therapeutic methods used in this study were effective in emotion regulation and distress tolerance among addicted women (P According to the findings of this study, psychodrama therapy and dialectical behavioral therapy have been effective in emotion regulation and distress tolerance among addicted women.