Effectiveness of Emotion-Focused Group Therapy in Social Intimacy, Social Acceptance, and Self-Compassion of Clients with anxiety referring to Counseling Centers
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Research/Original Article (دارای رتبه معتبر)
Abstract:
Background

Anxiety is a general, vague, and very unpleasant emotional feeling of anxiety that accompanies one or more physical feelings.

Objective

The aim of this study was the effectiveness of group therapy focused on emotion on social intimacy, social acceptance, and compassion for anxious clients in counseling centers in Isfahan.

Method

The research method was quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest design with a control group and a one-month follow-up period. The statistical population of the study was 40 anxious clients of Isfahan counseling centers in the spring and summer of 2020 who were selected by available sampling method from Tohid counseling centers in Isfahan and were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups (20 people in each group). The experimental group received an emotion-focused treatment program for 12 sessions of 120 minutes (once a week), while the control group did not receive any intervention. The research instruments included the SCL-90 questionnaire, self-compassion scale, social intimacy questionnaire, and social acceptance test scale which were performed on experimental and control groups in pre-test and post-test stages. The collected data were analyzed using repeated-measures analysis of variance using the SPSS 24 software package.

Results

The results showed that emotion-focused therapy had a significant effect on increasing social intimacy, social acceptance, and self-compassion (p <0.01).

Conclusion

It can be said that emotion-focused therapy is a useful intervention to increase social intimacy, social acceptance, and self-compassion in people with generalized anxiety disorder.

Language:
English
Published:
Razavi International Journal of Medicine, Volume:10 Issue: 1, Winter 2022
Pages:
71 to 79
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