The Effectiveness of Michael Free's Cognitive Group Therapy Method on Cognitive Emotion Regulation of Anxiety in Depressed Girls

The object of this study was investigating the effect of cognitive therapy group education based on Michael Free's cognitive therapy and anxiety in depressed girls in 2017.

The research method was semiexperimental with pre-test and post-test design. The statistical population included high school students of Hajar from Qom, Iran. In this study, 300 students were randomly selected and evaluated by Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ) and Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI) and Beck Depression short Inventory (BDI-S). Then 30 participants were selected and randomly assigned into two groups of experiments and control, each group having 15 participants.

The treatment group was effective on the cognitive and emotional regulation of the positive and negative emotions of the depressed girls. Michael Free's cognitive therapy was effective on the components of positive emotional cognitive management (P≤0.001) and the components of cognitive adjustment of negative excitement (P≤0.05).

Critical Therapist Training at Michael Free's cognitive therapy was not only effective in blaming the components of cognitive emotion-negative cognitive regulation, although was effective on the anxiety of depressed girls.