The Effectiveness of Unified Trans diagnostic Treatment on Social anxiety symptoms and Difficulty in Emotion Regulation: Single-Subject Design

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1 Ph.D Student of General of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran.

3 PhD Candidate of Psychology, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran

4 Assistant Professor of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran

Abstract

Unified Transdiagnostic treatment is one of the new psychological therapies that the effect of it on many emotional disorders has been established. Therefore, the present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of Unified Transdiagnostic treatment on social anxiety symptoms and difficulty of emotional regulations. It was a Single-subject design study with baseline design, the population of this study were all patients with social anxiety disorders referring to medical centers of counseling, psychological and psychiatric in 2017 in Neyshabur, Iran. Of these, 2 people with social anxiety disorders were selected on a purposive method and based on multidimensional evaluation (SCID-I, Connor's social phobia inventory and psychiatrist's interview. The subjects were treated in 15 sessions -60-45 minutes of Unified Trans-diagnostic and during which the baseline stage, 2nd, 3rd. and 4th measurements were evaluated using the Connor's social phobia inventory and Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale of Gratz & Roemer. Data were analyzed using MPI, MPR, Cohen's d, effect size and Visual analysis. The results showed that both participants experienced a significant reduction in social anxiety and difficulty in emotional regulation during and after treatment. According to the results of this study, Unified Transdiagnostic therapy was effective in improving the symptoms of social anxiety and difficulty in emotion regulation in patients with social anxiety disorder and therefore, it is suggested as a psychological treatment in clinical practice.

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