the Effectiveness of Emotion-Focused Therapy on Obsessive-Compulsive Symptoms, Rumination and Cognitive Avoidance of Women Patients with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of emotion-focused therapy on obsessive-compulsive symptoms, rumination and cognitive avoidance of women patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder. In order to select the participants of the study, 20 patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder were selected by Purposive sampling method from among the patients referred to the counseling centers of Isfahan in 2018, were selected and divided into two groups of emotion-focused therapy and control. Emotion-focused therapy was performed during eight weekly sessions and the control group did not receive any special treatment during this period of time.Yale- brown obsessive-compulsive scale, Ruminative Response Scale and cognitive avoidance scale were completed in three stages: pretest, post-test, and follow-up.To analyze the data, the method of analysis of variance with repeated measurements was used. The findings showed that the efficacy of emotion-focused therapy on reducing obsessive-compulsive symptoms, rumination and cognitive avoidance of patients was significant in post-test scores (0/05>sig).

The findings of this study have potentially significant implications for therapists to consider the effectiveness of emotion-focused therapy on the severity of obsessive-compulsive symptoms, rumination and cognitive avoidance in women patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder