Effectiveness of Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy on the Interpersonal Problems of the People with Sexual Identity Disorder

Sexual identity disorder is a serious disorder which damage psychological, communicative, social and emotional processes of the people suffering from it. Therefore the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy on the interpersonal problems of the people with sexual identity disorder.

The present study was quasiexperimental with pretest-posttest and control group design. The statistical population included the people with sexual identity disorder in the fall of 2018. 30 people with sexual identity disorder were selected through nonrandom purposive sampling method and randomly replaced into experimental and control groups. The experimental group received ten ninety-minute sessions of cognitive-behavioral intervention therapy during two-anda-half months. The applied instruments included interpersonal problems questionnaire (Barkhan, Hardy, startup, 1996) and. The data from the study were analyzed through ANCOVA.

The results showed that cognitive-behavioral therapy has had significant effect on the interpersonal problems of the people with sexual identity disorder (f=45.27, p<0.001). The degree of the effect of cognitive-behavioral therapy on the people suffering from it was 75% respectively.

According to the findings of the present study it can be concluded that cognitive-behavioral therapy employing techniques such as doing behavioral exercises, identifying fundamental inefficient beliefs and applying rational as well as efficient thoughts can be used as an efficient therapy to decrease interpersonal problems of the people with sexual identity disorder.