Effectiveness of Unified Trans-Diagnostic Treatment on Experimental Avoidance, Work-Family Conflict of the Employees with Burnout

The present study was conducted aiming to investigate the effectiveness of unified trans-diagnostic treatment on experimental avoidance and work-family conflict of the employees with burnout in Water and Sewage Company.

It was a quasi-experimental study with pretest, posttest, and control group design and a two-month follow-up period. The statistical population of the study includes the total of 500 employees with burnout in Water and Sewage Company in the province of Isfahan in 2019. 30 employees with burnout were selected through purposive sampling method and they were randomly replaced into experimental and control groups (15 employees in the experimental group and 15 in the control group) in the present study. The experimental group received 10 ninety-minute sessions of unified trans-diagnostic treatment interventions during twoand-a-half months. The applied questionnaires included burnout questionnaire (Meslesh and Jackson, 1981), acceptance and action questionnaire (Bond, et.la, 2011) and work-family conflict questionnaire (Carlson et al, 2010). The data from the study were analyzed through repeated measurement ANOVA.

the results showed that the unified trans-diagnostic treatment has significant effect on the experimental avoidance and work-family conflict of the employees with burnout (p0.001).

the findings of the present study showed that the unified trans-diagnostic treatment through employing techniques such as identifying emotions, training emotional awareness, cognitive reevaluation, recognizing emotion avoidance models and investigating behaviors resulting from emotion can be used as an efficient treatment to decrease experimental avoidance and work-family conflict of the employees with burnout.