Intervention in Impulsivity and Self-Control of Adolescents with Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder: Effectiveness and Effectiveness of Schema Modes Therapy and Impulse Control Training

This study aims to compare the effectiveness of schema modes therapy and Impulse Control Training was performed on the impulsivity and self-control of adolescents with disruptive mood dysregulation disorder.

 The experimental method and design of the present study were pre-test-post-test and multi-group follow-up. The statistical population of this study consists of all adolescents aged 10 to 17 years old in Shiraz who are studying in the schools of this city in the academic year 2019-2020. The sample consisted of 60 male adolescents with disruptive mood dysregulation disorder among the male adolescents who scored high on the self-report scale of the Achenbach child behavior inventory and the disruptive mood dysregulation disorder Laporte et al. Multi-stage cluster random sampling method was selected from education areas of Shiraz and randomly assigned to two experimental groups and a control group. The research instruments were structured clinical interviews, the self-report scale of the Achenbach child behavior Inventory, the self-control scale by Tangney and et al, and the Impulsiveness of Patton et al scale. The collected data were statistically analyzed using repeated measures covariance analysis.

The results showed that group training of subjective schema modes therapy and impulse control training was effective in reducing impulsivity and increasing self-control of adolescents with disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (P≤0.001).

Therefore, it can be concluded that subjective schema modes therapy and impulse control training can be used as appropriate intervention methods along with drug therapy.