Comparison of the effectiveness of schema therapy and mindfulness on cognitive regulation of emotion adaptive strategies in psychoactive drug users

The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of schema therapy and mindfulness on cognitive regulation of emotion adaptive strategies in psychoactive drug users. The study was a Quasi-experimental research with pre-test and post-test with control group and a follow-up period of three months. The population consisted of patients who were used go to outpatient addiction treatment center affiliated with Welfare Organization in Ahvaz in 2014. From among this population, 60 were selected using accessibility sampling and were randomly divided into two experimental groups, schema therapy and mindfulness, and one control group. One experimental group received schema therapy for 10 sessions and each session lasted one hour and the second experimental group received mindfulness- based therapy for 8 sessions and sessiont lasted for 45-minute. The subjects were evaluated with Garnefski (2002) Cognitive Regulation of Emotion Questionnaire before the initiation of treatment,the end of therapy sessions and the follow-up stages 3 months after treatment. The control group had no treatment at all. using Compare couple test(LSD) results showed that the use of Schema Therapy and Mindfulness is effective in psychoactive drug abuse. In other words, both the experimental group compared to the control group was significantly increased post-test and follow-up in adaptive strategies cognitive regulation of emotion at the level of (p