The effectiveness of Barlow's transdiagnostic treatment on the Emotional self-control of nomophobia

Transdiagnostic treatments are third wave treatments that can be effective in emotional self-control and achieving mental health. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of Barlow's extradiagnostic treatment on emotional self-control of 14-18-year-old adolescents with nomophobia.Research The research design is semi-experimental with pre-test-post-test and follow-up with a control group. 32 adolescent girls were selected from among adolescents aged 14-18 years old in Isfahan city and then randomly replaced in two groups of 16 people, experimental and control. The experimental group received Barlow et al.'s metadiagnostic therapy in the form of 12 90-minute sessions. The research tools of Nomophobia Questionnaire were developed by Azadmanesh et al. and emotional self-control. The data was analyzed by variance analysis with repeated measurements and SPSS version 23 software. The results of the research showed at a significant level (P<0.01) that Barlow's transdiagnostic treatment was effective on emotional self-control. Therefore, it can be concluded that, along with other psychological treatments, Barlow's meta-diagnostic treatment can be used especially for the emotional self-control of adolescents with nomophobia, so that adolescents can reach self-control from another control.