Effectiveness Training Emotion Regulation Skills in Emotional Schema and Substance Use Profile of Adolescents at Risko

The aim of current study was to study the effectiveness of training emotion regulation skills in emotional schema and substance use risk profile scale of at risk adolescents. The method of this research is experimental that we used pre-tests and post tests with control group. 24 teenage girls have been selected from at risk areas of Tehran with accessible sampling and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The members of experimental group got education program of emotion regulation skills in the base of dialectical behavioral therapy that was derived from Linehan model in 8 group sessions, while the control group don’t take any intervention. For this study, the Leahy Emotional Schemas Scale and the Substance Use Risk Profile Scale was used. Using the methods of descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) and inferential statistical methods (analysis of variance with repeated measures) were analyzed. The result showed that training emotion regulation skills increased the scores of adaptive emotional schema and decreased the scores of maladaptive emotional schema. Also there was an decrease in scores substance use risk profile scale rather than control group.