mohsen doustkam; Sepideh Pour heydari; Faezeh Karimi Sadr; ABOLFAZL HOSSEINI
Abstract
The purpose of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of Modular Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy on facial expression bias and fear of negative evaluation in paranoid students. The research method was quasi-experimental with pre-test-post-test with control group. The ...
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The purpose of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of Modular Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy on facial expression bias and fear of negative evaluation in paranoid students. The research method was quasi-experimental with pre-test-post-test with control group. The research community was composed of all students referring to the counseling center of kashmar University of Medical Sciences in the year 2017-16, who were diagnosed according to Multidimensional Clinical Questionnaire-3 and DSM-5 criteria with paranoid attribution disorder (According to statistics obtained from the center 60 people). Of these, 20 students with paranoid characteristics were selected through purposeful sampling and were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The experimental group received 16 sessions of Modular Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (HRT), Chuppita and did not receive interventional control.Multidimensional Clinical Questionnaire and Objective Fear Scale , were completed before and after the intervention by both groups. The collected data were analyzed by SPSS-22 software and inferential statistics of covariance analysis. The results of analysis of covariance showed that by eliminating the effect of pre-test scores on facial expression bias and fear of negative evaluation as a scattering variable, the main effect of Modular cognitive-behavioral therapy on facial expression bias and fear of negative evaluation in post-test is significant (P>0/05). Therefore, Modular cognitive behavioral therapy can be used as an effective method to reduce interpretation bias and fear of negative evaluation of people with paranoid traits.
