Abstract
Ranked fourth in the list of mental illnesses, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) accounts for about ten percent of patients visiting medical centers. There have so far been various methods of treatment for OCD. An attempt was made in this study to determine the effectiveness of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) on clinical signs and emotion regulation among patients with OCD. This was a quasi-experimental study involving intervention and control groups. The statistical population included all female patients referred to psychological counseling centers in Neyshabur during 2015. Each group comprised 15 patients selected through the convenient sampling method. The measurement tool was Yale-Brown’s Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) and Garnefski’s Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ). Training was provided for the intervention group during eight 90-minute sessions of dialectical behavior therapy, whereas the control group received no intervention. Analysis of covariance of the scores revealed that dialectical behavior therapy effectively reduced the observed symptoms and improved cognitive emotion regulation among patients. Generally, the results suggested that DBT alleviated OCD by modifying emotional responses of patients and that DBT could prove a highly effective treatment in this regard. DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n4p412
Highlights
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is characterized by specific uncontrollable, recurrent thoughts as well as impulsive, ritualized behaviors, where individuals feel as if their thoughts and actions were repeated in response to certain obsessive rules
The first hypothesis suggested that dialectical behavior therapy was effective on emotion regulation in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder
This implied that the hypothesis was proved, i.e. dialectical behavior therapy can be effective on emotion regulation of patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder
Summary
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is characterized by specific uncontrollable, recurrent thoughts as well as impulsive, ritualized behaviors, where individuals feel as if their thoughts and actions were repeated in response to certain obsessive rules. In recent years, increasing attention has been directed towards the role of emotional regulation and processing in a variety of disorders (Leahy et al.,2014). There is a relationship between cognition and emotion, where emotional regulation contributes to depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and OCD (Taylor et al, 2007). Rejection of cognitive therapy in treating anxiety disorders is partly associated with emotional avoidance and fear of anxiety caused by dysregulation (Leahy, 2007). When emotion is triggered to a troublesome degree of severity, it may be difficult to adopt other traditional cognitive-behavioral techniques, stress level can be escalated. Employment of behavioral techniques, exposure techniques, may be difficult since they tend to aggravate emotional distress (Leahy et al.,2014)
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